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Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1862

CBTM:
21996
Map Date:
3.1862
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 7545(1)
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:
[Top left:] 'Plan of the city of Aberdeen in 1862.' [Bottom right:] 'Constructed from recent original surveys by A. Gibb, 1862.'
Comments on map:
A more elaborate version of the 1:7200 map [Exeter 21997].
Scale:
1:3600
Map-maker:
A. Gibb [author], Keith & Gibb, Draughtsmen, Lithographers & Engravers to the Queen, 15 Union Buildings, Aberdeen [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
103 x 117
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information, boundaries: Boxes for administrative colouring [absent from this copy]; notes on police and municipal wards.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Not markedly so.
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours, jetties, navigation aids, quays, misc: Life Boat House, Lime Sheds, Harbour Office.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, municipal depots, misc: Named well, a few Wells in street; [Police Dungyard].
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, misc: Record Office; customs is 'Custom Box'.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals, rifle ranges
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
bathing, sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Public/administrative boundaries:
borough, misc, boundary markers: Police boundary, [numbered March Stones].
Known copies of map:
Aberdeen Archives G2, G4, BLML Maps 7545 (1), CUL Maps.130.86.6, CUL Maps.130.86.7, NLS Map.l.16.10, Map.l.16.11.
Industry:
bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, food/drink, ship yards, rope walk, timber, uncertain, misc: Works, Comb Works, Granite Works, Jute Mills, Boilyards.
Railways:
routes, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc, misc: Hydropathic Establishment with Turkish Baths.
Magnetic data:
diagram
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies
Relief:
shown partially: [Isolated examples].
Monuments:
Monuments
Post and telegraphs:
flagstaff
Cemeteries:
shown
Miscellaneous street furniture:
Mile Stone.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: Channel and docks; notes on soundings (High Water, medium tides, when there is 19 feet on the tide gauges at the dock gates) and tide rises.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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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