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Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1810

CBTM:
21995
Map Date:
6.1810
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 3.a.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:
'Plan of the City of Aberdeen and its improvements, with the West and Dry Docks and other works connected with the Harbour, as now executing....'
Comments on map:
Apparently made by 'desire' of the Lord Provost and Council; note of superintending engineer (John Gibb), above bottom right. Note at bottom of reference to public buildings, &c, of certain streets laid out since Act of 1800.
Scale:
1:3556
Map-maker:
John Smith, Architect & Surveyor [sv], S.J. Neele, sculpt, 352 Strand, London [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
96.0 x 76.0
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours
Colouring:
other: Hand-coloured to enhance new roads, water and land-use; proposed building and authorised entension of harbour tined pink ('red').
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some building along e.g. Union Street and King Street is probably projected rather than actual.
Mills:
watermills
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, quays
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, misc: Record Office; [Guard House].
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough: [City royalty].
Known copies of map:
Aberdeen Library, BLML Maps 3.a.6, NLS Signet.s.72, MS.5844, no.8, NASc RHP 3391 [1810]; Aberdeen Archives Loose Plans Box 2 [undated reproduction]; NASc RHP 31049 [photo].
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Magnetic data:
diagram
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Owners of less built-up parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Title on 'rock', with modest vegetation.
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
Left of bottom centre: elevation of bridge on Union Street, 1:396.
Relief:
prominent hills
Dedicee of map:
[Title implies dedication to James Hadden, Lord Provost, and the other members of the City Council, and also Thomas Telford, as engineer to the harbour works.]
Stated measuerments:
other: Dock lengths.
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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