Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1880 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22930

Map Date:

1880

Repository reference:

Aberdeen City Archives [displayed on wall]

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 prepared for the Post Office directory, 1880.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from undated, evidently fairly modern, reproduction. This is possibly an Ordnance Survey transcript in origin, but may also derive partly from the Gibb map of 1862 [Exeter 21996]; it is not the same as the 1:7200 map of 1885 [Exeter 21806], or the 1883 map [Exeter 22930], which is very simlar, but drawn separately. Scale-bar eccentriclly graduated, but 1:7200 seems 'best fit'.

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

Gibb & Hay, Draughtsmen, Lithographers & Engravers to the Queen, 3 Queen Street, Aberdeen [authors, litho].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.7 x 44.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries, postal

Road names:

generally: Not some back alleys, e.g.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Generalised in more built-up part: numerous buildings emphasised but not named.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours, jetties, navigation aids, misc: Lifeboat Houses.

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, misc: Named wells.

Places of Worship:

cathedral/principal church only: St Nicholas, here 'East & West Churches': the others are amongst the numerous anonymous cross-hatched buildings.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

blind, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, workhouses, misc: Industrial Asylum, Nazareth House.

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Recreation and sports venues:

race courses, sports grounds, misc: Golf Club House.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward

Known copies of map:

Aberdeen Archives [displayed on wall].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, food/drink, shown, rope walk, timber, uncertain, misc: Mills, Works; Comb Works, Granite Works, Jute Works, Steam Laundry.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, ice-skating

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown, skating ponds

Relief:

shown partially: [A few 'hills' on links].

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

letter-boxes, post offices: [Receiving Houses & Money Order Offices [cross], Pillar and Wall Boxes [disk]].

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

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