Aberdeenshire-Ellon-1887 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21807

Map Date:

1887

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 4102

Historic county:

Aberdeenshire

Town name:

Ellon

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ 957304

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 9630

Map title:

'Plan of the lands of Ellon, Fechil, Logie and Tarty, lying in the parishes of Ellon and Logie Buchan and county of Aberdeen.'

Comments on map:

Record applies mainly to inset of Ellon town on the main map, at 1:7920. Claims to be surveyed by Walker & Beattie, but it all looks rather OS-derived, including the .001 field acreages. With tables of abstracts of contents of estates.

Scale:

1:2500

Map-maker:

Walker & Beattie, Engineers & Surveyors, Aberdeen [sv], Andrew Gibb & Co., Draughtsmen, Lithographers & Engravers, 3 Queen St & 40 Broad St, Aberdeen [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

39.7 x 34.2 [inset maximum: 99 x 126 overall].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 4102.

Industry:

uncertain: Mill.

Railways:

routes, earthworks, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Old Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Larger ones].

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Estate boundary ownership:

shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Field acreages.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1868

1:2500

1:10,560

1899

1:2500

1:10,560