Aberdeenshire-Huntly-1770 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21811

Map Date:

1770

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 2145, RHP 2268, RHP 2269

Historic county:

Aberdeenshire

Town name:

Huntly

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ529400

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 5239

Map title:

'A plan of the tenements of Huntly made from an accurate survey taken Anno 1770'.

Comments on map:

RHP 2145, RHP 2268: 1:1776: catalogue says are by Thomas Milne, 1770, for laying out new town: future built-up part is tinted grey with no internal detail; RHP 2269 is detailed 1:888 plan, with scales of Scots chains of 24 ells or 74 feet, and Scots ells of 39.5 inches.

Scale:

1:888

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

117 x 128 [1:1776:], 110.5 x 87.0 [1:888:].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water, decorative, other: Grey water and projected built-up part on 1:1776; grey cartouche shading; 1:888 has projected new streets in red.

Buildings:

shown

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 2145, RHP 2268, RHP 2269.

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: On 1:888: with a few symetrically-disposed bunches of grapes.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1870

1:2500

1:10,560