Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1883 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22931

Map Date:

1883

Repository reference:

Aberdeen City Archives Loose Plans Box 3

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... 1883.'

Comments on map:

This is possibly an Ordnance Survey transcript in origin, but may also derive partly from the Gibb map of 1862 [Exeter 21996]; though drawing is very similar, it is not the same as the 1:7200 maps of 1880 and 1885 [Exeter 22930 and 21806 respectively].

Scale:

1:6840

Map-maker:

Gibb & Hay, Royal Litho Works, Aberdeen [authors, litho].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

104.5 x 95.0 [in two sections].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally: Not some back alleys, e.g.

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Generalised in more built-up part.

Water transport infrastructure:

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

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, municipal depots, reservoirs, misc: Named wells, [Dung Yard].

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown: St Nicholas, here 'East & West Churches', and others in outlying villages.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

barracks, coastguard, castles/forts/batteries, rifle ranges

Welfare and charitable:

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

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

auctions, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

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

Woodland:

landmark tree, scattered tree cover, orchards: [Old Oak Tree: by docks].

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward

Known copies of map:

Aberdeen Archives Loose Plans Box 3, Box 5.

Industry:

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

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, turntables, rails, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa, g, ice-skating

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Old Bridge (A.D. 1523).

Landowners and occupiers:

industrial owners

Waterbodies:

shown, skating ponds

Relief:

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

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown

Residual industrial land-use and waste:

relict extraction: Disused quarries.

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