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Bowmore-1838

CBTM:
21964
Map Date:
1838
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 10614
Town name:
Bowmore
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NR311598
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NR 3259
Map title:
'Rough Draft of a Survey of Bowmore W. Gemmill Surveyor 1838.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy; scale from later note by title.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
W. Gemmill, Surveyor [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
136 x 79
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, owners, decorative: Possibly others.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
shown
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial): In striking contrast to strict planimetry of everything else.
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 10614 [photo].
Industry:
distilling, timber
Landowners and occupiers:
holdings/occupiers: [Occupiers or feuars].
Waterbodies:
shown
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Sailing vessel tied to pier.
Stated measuerments:
other: Frontage lengths.
Ordnance Survey's
1878
1:2500
1:10,560
1897-8
1:2500
1:10,560
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