Ayrshire-Largs-1811 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21720

Map Date:

1811

Repository reference:

NLS EMS.b.1.103

Historic county:

Ayrshire

Town name:

Largs

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS203594

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 1856

Map title:

'Plan of the old town of Largs with the town lands feus &c. the property of Thomas Brisbane Esqr. of Brisbane Surveyed by John Leslie 1811'.

Comments on map:

Style of drawing suggests that it is a copy of 40 or 50 years later. Nearly half the paper is taken up with a table of owners, including acreage in Scotch acres of the Town Lands.

Scale:

1:2664

Map-maker:

John Leslie [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

79.2 x 60.3 [overall: map 48.0 x 58.5].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners

Road names:

partly

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Wells.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

NLS EMS.b.1.103; Ayrshire Archives ATD 31/1.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Coal Fauld, Fishermanshouse, Tron Tree, Observatory Pillars.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1855

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560