Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1745 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21783

Map Date:

1745

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.49.9

Historic county:

Aberdeenshire

Town name:

Aberdeen

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NJ943063

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 9010

Map title:

'A plan of the town & harbour of Aberdeen surveyed and drawn by Daniel Paterson 1745/6.'

Comments on map:

There seems to be considerable telescoping of distance on the east side. Building shapes are rather more refined than on the smaller-scale versions [Exeter 21780-82]. Scale indicates 1:1800: comparative measurement suggests about 1:4500.

Scale:

1:4500*

Map-maker:

Daniel Paterson [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

35.8 x 25.3

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

land-use: Hills.

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Not markedly so: nothing to indicate public, etc, buildings.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): [Standard door-and-window-and-star-sails icon: an unnamed pictorial tower would seem to be an old windmill. These, the blockhouse and the castle are the only identifiable buildings: as military lookouts? The kirk not suitable?]

Water transport infrastructure:

river stairs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Castle, Blockhouse]; 'Artillery': probably a temporary battery during the rebellion.

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.49.9.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Relief:

'molehills'

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1866-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560