Banffshire-Abercirder-1797 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21911

Map Date:

1797

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 31270

Historic county:

Banffshire

Town name:

Abercirder

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ628526

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 6861

Map title:

'Plan for enlarging the village of Abercirder... the property of Miss Catherine Gordon of Auchentoule by Alexr. Storison Febry. 1797'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: value as indicater of reality seems highly questionable.

Scale:

1:1776

Map-maker:

Alexander Storison [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

39 x 83

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised: Some buildings in square in elevation: all the others shown with hipped roofs.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 31268 [1796: photo]; RHP 31269 [1796: photo: anor version], RHP 31270 [1797] [Exeter 21911].

Stated measuerments:

Road widths.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1865

1:2500

1:10,560