Aberdeenshire-Peterhead-1775
CBTM:
21912
Map Date:
1775
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 37949
Historic county:
Aberdeenshire
Town name:
Peterhead
Map type:
Hydrographic
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NK133462
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NK 1245
Map title:
'A plan of the town and harbour of Peterhead with the seacoast adjacent accurately surveyed Anno 1775 by J.S.', 'A draught of the Harbour of Peterhead with Mr Smeaton's proposed projection of the piers...'
Comments on map:
Inset is of harbour, 1:1800; record applies to town part only. Below the inset is 'Calculation of the Expence by John Gnyn Engineer'.
Scale:
1:7104
Map-maker:
J.S. [? John Smeaton] [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
50.8 x 71.8
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
other: Rocks, proposed piers.
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 37949.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Miscellaneous:
The easternmost point of the town is called 'Buchan Ness The Eastmost point of Scotland', and what Ordnance Survey calls Buchan Head is 'Boddum head'. [There does not seem to be much in it!]
Relief:
slopes shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Pictorial shipping in sea.
Stated measuerments:
soundings: A few in bay.
Ordnance Survey's
1869
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1900
1:2500
1:10,560
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