Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1790
CBTM:
21983
Map Date:
1.3.1790
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.49.11.2.TAB
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 with all the inclosures surrounding the town to the adjacent country made out from an accurate survey taken 1789 by Alexr. Milne'.
Comments on map:
Excludes Old Aberdeen and the university.
Scale:
1:3552
Map-maker:
Alexr Milne [sv], D. Lizars [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
112.0 x 87.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Some public, etc, buildings pictorial.
Mills:
windmills, watermills, (pictorial): [Tower without sails: not at all conventional, to Lincolnshire eyes anyway].
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, navigation aids, piers, misc: Crane.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells [in streets: pictorial], rural Well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, misc: [City Guard House]; Record Office.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
NLS [website]; Aberdeen Archives J1, Aberdeen Library, BLML K.49.11.2.TAB, NLS EMS.b.2.41 [1790]; Aberdeen Archives-PCA, BLML 7545 (4), NLS EMS.b.2.41, NASc RHP 25377 [1902: W. & A.K. Johnston].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, uncertain, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, abbatoirs, misc: Factories, [Salughter Place].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners, industrial owners: [Owners of un-built-on lands].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Rococco, surrounded by trees, tree-trunks, fragments of classical carving; less elaborate top to 'scroll' with reference.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Top right: mouth of Dee from south side with city in background.
Relief:
prominent hills: Plateauy.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weigh House.
Cemeteries:
shown
Estate boundary ownership:
fragmentary: [March of the Fishing].
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile Stone.
Garden and park buildings:
misc: Dove Cott.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Stated measuerments:
soundings: In feet and inches.
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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