Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1746 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21784

Map Date:

1746

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.49.10

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:

'An exact plan of the town and harbour of Aberdeen survey'd and drawn by Daniel Paterson 1745/6.'

Comments on map:

A coloured version of Exeter 21783, with more generalised buildings, and more explicit non-urban land-use. Scale is graduated as about 1:3800.

Scale:

1:3800

Map-maker:

Daniel Paterson [sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.0 x 26.5

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, water, land-use

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Buildings more generalised than on the monochrome version [Exeter 21783].

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial), (symbol): [Post-mill only; watermill shown by 'wheel'].

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, river stairs

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, misc.: [Blockhouse, Castle]; 'Artillery'.

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.49.10

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Relief:

'molehills'

Ordnance Survey's

1866-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560