Caithness-Thurso-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21796

Map Date:

[1812]

Repository reference:

BL 287.e.6

Historic county:

Caithness

Town name:

Thurso

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ND117685

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

ND 1268

Map title:

[Plate VI:] 'Plan of the New Town of Thurso... now building...', [Plate IX:] 'A chart of the town of Thurso in Caithness, with a plan of the proposed harbour. 1801.'

Comments on map:

Plates VI and IX in John Henderson, General view of the agriculture of the county of Caithness, London: Nichol, Longman, etc, 1812, f.p. 69, 73. The New Town (1:2700) appears to be partly speculative, and the old town is scanty.

Scale:

1:5940

Map-maker:

S.I. Neele, 352 Strand [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.8 x 21.3 [Pl. IX], 23.7 x 21.5 [Pl. VI].

Number of parts:

2

Road names:

partly: New town only.

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

quays, misc: Proposed warehouses.

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Washing House, Well.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

BL 287.e.6, 988.i.24, NLS M.41.a.

Industry:

engineering, food/drink, textiles, uncertain: Workshops.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Parkland:

public parks

Service and professional:

banks

Monuments:

statues: [?proposed].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial shipping in harbour on New Town part.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Stated measuerments:

soundings, other: New street widths.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: New town only.

Ordnance Survey's

1871-2

1:2500

1:10,560