Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Bathgate-1767 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21894

Map Date:

1767

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 6818

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Bathgate

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NS967689

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NS 9667

Map title:

'A plan of Bathgate lying in West Lothian belonging to the Right Honble. The Earl of Hopetoun'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy, slightly reduced: dimensions compensated. Town may be a little generalised. Described as surveyed 1764 and 1767. Top right is description of Marches of Bathgate, bottom left is indication of estate colours and summary contents.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Leslie [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60 x 67

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

owners

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 6818 [original], West Lothian Library BB 161-162 [photocopy].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Other land-uses & land-cover:

misc: Stack Yard.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1854-5

1:2500

1:10,560

1895-6

1:2500

1:10,560