Buteshire-Millport-1772 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21926

Map Date:

12.1772

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 23900

Historic county:

Buteshire

Town name:

Millport

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS161549

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 1856

Map title:

'A plan of the island of Combray the property of the Right Honourable the Earl of Glasgow Made out from an accurate survey in December 1772 by John Home.'

Comments on map:

Of whole island: entry applies to town area only, which is shown fragmentarily, but more plausibly than on the 1779 map [Exeter 21923]. Map is annotated with notes of land-use-capability.

Scale:

1:4444

Map-maker:

John Home [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

143 x 77

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

land-use

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 23900 [photo].

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Formed by trees and rocks.

Symbolic elements:

Trees and rocks: forming cartouche.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Numerous large sailing vessels in sea.

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Above title: presumed thus].

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:2500

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560