Aberdeenshire-Aberdeen-1896 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21906

Map Date:

1896

Repository reference:

Aberdeen City Archives, Loose Plans Box 2

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 1896.

Comments on map:

This has a northward extension, similar to the 1883 Gibb & Hay map [Exeter 22931]. In origins it looks like a redrawn and smartened-up version of the Gibb & Hay mapping [Exeter 22930, 22931].

Scale:

1:7500

Map-maker:

G. Cornwall & Sons, Map & Plan Lithographers, Aberdeen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

99.5 x 88.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

boundaries, other: Postal facilities.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

breakwaters, docks, jetties, navigation aids, boat houses, misc: Rocket House, Lifeboat House, Pilot's Office.

Sanitary and utility information:

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

Places of Worship:

incompletely shown

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, police

Defence and military:

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

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, mental, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

auctions, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds, recreation grounds

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward

Known copies of map:

Aberdeen Archives Loose Plans Box 2 [1896]; NASc RHP 45558, Aberdeen Archives G4 [badly torn] [1896: showing slaughter houses and cattle markets]; BL P.P.2511.hca/DIR.71 [1899: in Post Office Directory, 1898-1900: A. King, Aberdeen [pb]].

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, distilling, engineering, ship yards, rope walk, furniture/pottery, textiles, uncertain, misc: Mills, Works [the usual description], Jute Works, Steam Laundry, Curing Yards.

Railways:

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

River and foreshore features:

foreshore: [Spring-tide lines].

Gardens:

nurseries

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Road transport:

bus routes: In red.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

sports

Relief:

cliffs

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Monuments:

Monuments

Post and telegraphs:

electric telegraph office, letter-boxes, post offices: In red: General Post Office (red cross in circle), Money Order and Telegraph Offices (red rectangle), Money Order Offices (red cross), Pillar, Wall & Lamp Letter Boxes (red disk).

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Some laid-out streets in pecked lines.

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Dog Home.

Cemeteries:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

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