Aberdeenshire-Ballater-1808 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21808

Map Date:

1808

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 327

Historic county:

Aberdeenshire

Town name:

Ballater

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO369957

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 3695

Map title:

[Top centre:] 'Plan of Ballater Village and the grounds adjoining lying in the parish of Tullich and county of Aberdeen the property of William Farquharson Esquire 1808'; [bottom left:] 'Plan of the New Intended Village of Ballater according to which the Feus are to be granted

Comments on map:

With table of contents and notes on standard dimensions of feus, top right.

Scale:

1:1776

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

105 x 76

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, decorative, uncertain: Yellow plots in village; blue church.

Road names:

inside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.: Possibly because there are none to show.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Unclear if real or proposed.

Markets and exchanges:

fairgrounds, markets: ['Ground where the annual fairs are to be held'].

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 327.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: A tree either side of the title.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Some notes on soil and liability to flooding.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1865

1:2500

1:10,560