Buteshire-Millport-1779
CBTM:
21923
Map Date:
1779
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 38050
Historic county:
Buteshire
Town name:
Millport
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NS161549
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 1856
Map title:
'Sketch of the village called the Miln-Port of Cumbrae with the lands possessed by the inhabitants Surveyed April 1779'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from photocopy: original in Argyll & Bute District Archives. NASc list says is by Peter May. This covers the west half only of the later town. Unclear whether all the buildings shown actually exist. Table of contents and occupiers at bottom of map.
Scale:
1:1776
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
42.0 x 39.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, land-use
Buildings:
shown
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Education and academic:
schools
Known copies of map:
Ayrshire Archives Ac.556 [new accession, 6:05]; NASc RHP 38050 [photo: original formerly in Argyll & Bute District Archives: DC6/60/70].
Gardens:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Relief:
slopes shown
Extractive activity:
coal: 'Coal Pitt attempted here'.
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Sailing vessel in harbour.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1856
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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