Elginshire [Morayshire]-Elgin-1822
CBTM:
22045
Map Date:
1822
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Elginshire [Morayshire]
Town name:
Elgin
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NJ217628
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NJ 2366
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Elgin from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1822'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 66-foot chains.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
John Wood [sv], T. Clerk, Edinr. [eng], Elgin, 1 North Bridge Edinr. [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
65.5 x 50.3 [map: plate 66.7 x 53.2].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
colours: Red line shows borough boundary: absent from this copy.
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Mills:
watermills: One with 'wheel'.
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Welfare and charitable:
workhouses
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
Elgin Public Library, BOL (E)C18:45 Elgin (3) [1822]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website]; NLS Map.Fac.s.86 [1982: Moray District Library].
Industry:
food/drink, textiles
River and foreshore features:
old river courses, misc: Dam in river, [Suppossed Former Course of Lossie].
Gardens:
nurseries: ['Furrow' effect].
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices
Antiquities:
Monastic and cathedral ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown: Including innkeepers.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls, misc: Trinity Lodge [masons?].
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Crosses:
cross, named: [Little Cross].
Garden and park buildings:
misc: Dove Cots.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1868
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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