Caithness-Wick-1812 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21795

Map Date:

[1812]

Repository reference:

BL 287.e.6

Historic county:

Caithness

Town name:

Wick

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

ND365506

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NC 3751

Map title:

'A chart of the town, river, & bay of Wick...'

Comments on map:

Plate II in John Henderson, General view of the agriculture of the county of Caithness, London: Nichol, Longman, etc, 1812, f.p. 251. Mapping of town very cursory.

Scale:

1:9000

Map-maker:

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

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

20.7 x 24.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Mostly generalised frontages.

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, misc: Warehouses, herring houses, cooperage, ground for drying and mending nets.

Known copies of map:

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

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Larger owners].

Relief:

prominent hills

Stated measuerments:

soundings

Ordnance Survey's

1872

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560