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Buteshire-Rothesay-1825

CBTM:
22069
Map Date:
1825
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Buteshire
Town name:
Rothesay
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO088646
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 0862
Map title:
'Plan of Rothesay from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1825'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scales of 66-feet chains and of feet.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
John Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St, & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
52.0 x 47.5 [map: plate 55.7 x 50.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries
Education and academic:
schools: With steps.
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles
Antiquities:
Chapel ruins, battery built by Cromwell.
Landowners and occupiers:
notable residents
Relief:
prominent hills
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Crosses:
cross
Geodetic notes:
Bearing to Castle Toward.
Miscellaneous physical features:
A few rock outcrops.
Tenement boundaries group:
intersections with frontages only: Often frontages only.
Ordnance Survey's
1862-3
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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