Dumfriesshire-Sanquhar-1851 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21960

Map Date:

1851

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 27758

Historic county:

Dumfriesshire

Town name:

Sanquhar

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NS780100

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 7910

Map title:

'New Plan of Townhead Park Sanquhar as divided into lots or areas for houses and gardens by William Duke of Queensbury in the year 1808. Made out with reference to the Building Leases to be granted by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensbury by the said lots or areas

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy: original is for deeds, as evidenced by signatures on left. The 1808 plan is that at Exeter 21935. Table, bottom right, lists tenants, acreages and rents.

Scale:

1:792

Map-maker:

McCallum & Dundas C.E. [? sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

90 x 55

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Bleaching Green.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 37758

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1856

1:2500

1:10,560

1898-9

1:2500

1:10,560