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Banffshire-Banff-1823

CBTM:
22033
Map Date:
1823
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Banffshire
Town name:
Banff
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NJ689640
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NJ 6961
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Banff from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1823.'
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. The map seems incomplete: numerous buildings are emphasised but not described.
Scale:
1:3552*
Map-maker:
John Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St, Edinr. [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.5 x 50.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
clergy residences, important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Numerous buildings emphasised and numbered, but no reference.
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, piers, misc: Pictorial poles [?] on pier.
Sanitary and utility information:
reservoirs, misc: Watering Trough.
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11 [in 1828 Atlas], BOL (E)C18:45 Banff (1), NLS EU.31.W, National Archives of Scotland RHP 20974; NLS [website].
Industry:
lime/cement, misc: Salmon House.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Church ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners, misc: [Outlying only]: figures attached to most buildings in town, meaning uncertain.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1865-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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