Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1746 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21781

Map Date:

? 1746

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.49.7

Historic county:

Aberdeenshire

Town name:

Aberdeen

Map type:

uncertain

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 inscribed to ----.'

Comments on map:

This seems to be a derivative of Exeter 21780 and a draft for Exeter 21782. 'G. and H. Paterson' added in cartouche in pencil.

Scale:

1:18,000*

Map-maker:

? G. and H. Paterson [authors].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

43.8 x 35.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, land-use: Grey water and hills.

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:

BLML K.Top.49.7.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, smithing

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, springs: [Spring Well].

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

Relief:

'molehills'

Symbolic elements:

'Sun-face' at centre of direction-star.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [At bottom of cartouche].

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Stated measuerments:

soundings, other: Height of stones.

Ordnance Survey's

1866-7

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560