Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1746
CBTM:
21782
Map Date:
1746
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.49.6
Historic county:
Aberdeenshire
Town name:
Aberdeen
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NJ943063
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NJ 9010
Map title:
'A survey of Old and New Aberdeen with the adjacent country between ye Rivers Dee and Don'.
Comments on map:
A spruced-up version of Exeter 21781.
Scale:
1:18,000
Map-maker:
G. & W. Paterson [authors], J. Millan, Bookseller next Scotland Yard, Whitehall [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
44.3 x 36.2
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: 'Important' buildings are pictorial.
Mills:
windmills, watermills: [Old Windmill].
Water transport infrastructure:
quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Public buildings:
customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: Blockhouse.
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Aberdeen Archives G4, SR Dr 1 [faded], J1, Aberdeen Library, Aberdeen University Library, BLML K.49.6, BOL, CUL Ll.12.21, NLS [1746]; NLS A.44.d.9 [1790: in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannice, Vol V]; NLS MS.5844, no.3 [facsimile]; NASc RHP 6416/2, RHP 25420 [1902.c: W. & A.K. Johnston].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, smithing
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, springs: [Spring Well].
Gardens:
shown
Miscellaneous:
Various notes, etc, e.g. 'Here grows all sorts of Pot Herbs'.
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
Castle ruins, '2 Stones of 12 & 6 Feet high', heaps of stones.
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top left: Scotland, 1:3,168,000; bottom right: Montrose, 1 inch to 2000 paces (about 1:126,720).
Relief:
'molehills'
Symbolic elements:
'Sun-face' at centre of direction-star.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [At bottom of cartouche].
Dedicee of map:
Rt Hon D. Forbes, Esq., Lord President of Sessions in Scotland.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings: Feet specified.
Ordnance Survey's
1866-7
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1899-1900
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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