Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Bo’ness-1766
CBTM:
21895
Map Date:
1766
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 3612
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Bo'ness
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NS999816
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NS 9581
Map title:
'Plan of the feus and town of Borrowstouness surveyed by A. Shepherd 1766'.
Comments on map:
Feus numbered: no cadastre to hand. Bottom right: ? 'Hamilton, 24th. April, 1846. Copied by Tho. Boyd': retains box-type scale, but style is otherwise closer to 1846 than 1766.
Scale:
1:1800
Map-maker:
A. Shepherd [sv], Tho. Boyd [dr].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
113 x 64
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water, owners: Grey buildings.
Buildings:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 38138 [photo of original], NASc RHP 3612 [1847 copy].
Industry:
salt: Salt Pond with Reservoir.
Magnetic data:
diagram
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1855
1:2500
1:10,560
1895
1:2500
1:10,560
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