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Ayrshire-Saltcoats-1812

CBTM:
21816
Map Date:
? 1812
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 2031/1
Historic county:
Ayrshire
Town name:
Saltcoats
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NS244413
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 2737
Map title:
'Plan of that part of the town of Saltcoats and adjoining lands of Town-head the property of Lord Montgomerie ... Glasgow 18 Novr. by P. Fleming.'
Comments on map:
Dated c.1812 in catalogue. What was the purpose? Was it distributed to adjoining landowners?
Scale:
1:1776
Map-maker:
P. Fleming [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
117 x 59 [2 plates].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
ownership
Colouring:
other: Boundaries between owners.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Turnpikes:
shown
Mills:
windmills: [Old windmill].
Canals:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, piers, quays: Harbour noted as sketched rather than measured.
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 2031/1 [original]; North Ayrshire [reduced photo].
Industry:
salt, timber
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown, holdings/occupiers: [Only a few occupiers].
Extractive activity:
coal, quarries/pits
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
relict industry, relict extraction: Old salt pans, well formerly a coal pit, Site of Smelting House.
Estate boundary ownership:
shown
Miscellaneous physical features:
Rocky ground.
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: Mostly omitted in town.
Ordnance Survey's
1855
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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