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Berwickshire-Greenlaw-1771

CBTM:
21713
Map Date:
1771
Repository reference:
NLS [county folder]
Historic county:
Berwickshire
Town name:
Greenlaw
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT710460
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 7550
Map title:
'A plan of Greenlaw'.
Comments on map:
Inset on 1:63,360 'Map of the county of Berwick taken from an actual survey... by Capt Armstrong and Son...'
Scale:
1:2760
Map-maker:
A. & M. Armstrong [sv], A. Bell [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
24.3 x 16.5
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
clergy residences
Buildings:
noticeably generalised
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Well in Market Place [pictorial].
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): County House, Gaol and Church are shown 'correctly', as a single pictorial building with a spire rising from the middle.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, misc: Tron [pictorial]; County House, Gaol and Church are shown 'correctly', as a single pictorial building with a spire rising from the middle. [The tower below the spire contained five cells, one on top of the other].
Penal:
jails/reformatories: Combined with county house and church, q.v.
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown: [Might be an orchard].
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 8010 (2), BOL Gough Maps Scotland 36, (R)C18:14(2), CUL Maps.R.a.36, NLS, RGS MR Scotland D.22 [515444], RSGS [originals]; NLS [county folder] [photo]; NLS [website].
Industry:
uncertain: Kiln.
Crosses:
cross, (pictorial)
Geodetic notes:
Note of latitude and longitude below title.
Dedicee of map:
[Main map:] Hugh Hume Campbell, Earl of Marchmont.
Inns, hospitality & refreshment:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
Ordnance Survey's
1857
1:2500
1:10,560
1898
1:2500
1:10,560
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