Elginshire [Morayshire]-Burghead-1808 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21877

Map Date:

5.1808

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 2001

Historic county:

Elginshire [Morayshire]

Town name:

Burghead

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ111691

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 1267

Map title:

'Plan of the intended town of Burghead as settled upon by the proprietors and partly laid out May 1808.'

Comments on map:

'Explanation' of street widths and laying out at bottom of map, signed 'Linkwood 13th. May 1808'. Scale is in feet. Shown fully built-up: presumably imaginary. Catalogue attributes it to George Brown.

Scale:

1:888

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.0 x 52.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, roads, water

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours

Places of Worship:

principal Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 2001.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom left: section of North Pier and Breast Work.

Relief:

prominent hills

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1870

1:2500

1:10,560