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Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1773

CBTM:
21676
Map Date:
1773
Repository reference:
NLS Signet s.71
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 plan of the city of Aberdeen, the Old Town and the adjacent country made out from an accurate survey taken 1773.'
Comments on map:
The built-up area only occupies a modest part of the map. Scale of 1 inch to 8 Scottish chains of 24 Ells or 74 Feet each.
Scale:
1:7104
Map-maker:
George Taylor [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
88.5 x 94.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
navigation aids, piers: [Numerous pictorial beacons].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
gallows, (pictorial): Unoccupied.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries: [Block House: pictogram, with flag].
Education and academic:
further educational/colleges
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Aberdeen Archives H1, Aberdeen Library, BOL, NLS Signet.s.71, NASc RHP 814, RHP 3390, RHP 11778 [1773]; Aberdeen Archives-PCA, NLS Map.Fac.s.173, NASc RHP 6315/2, RHP 25376 [1902: Taylor & Henderson]; NLS MS 5844, no.3 [facsimile].
Industry:
food/drink, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, timber, misc: [Bleachfield], Snuff Mill, [Fishouses].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore, foreshore material specified
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Outside built-up part].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco, with tree to one side, and what seems to be a cornucopia below.
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Dedicee of map:
The Provost, Bailies, Magistrates and Council: twenty of these are named.
Stated measuerments:
soundings
Tenement boundaries group:
less built-up parts only
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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