Elginshire [Morayshire]-Fochabers-1761 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21879

Map Date:

1761

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 287

Historic county:

Elginshire [Morayshire]

Town name:

Fochabers

Map type:

Hydrographic

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ344587

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 3660

Map title:

'A plan of the River Spey... surveyed, October 1760, by Peter May Surveyor, Engraved, by Thos. Phinn Edinr: 1761.'

Comments on map:

Mapping of town is incidental to mapping of river. Scale of 'English Miles'. Left-half of plate is letterpress 'Explanation', and answers to memoirs from Earls of Gordon, Moray and Fife, overprinted on copper-plate.

Scale:

1:22,000

Map-maker:

Peter May [sv], Thos Phinn, Edinburgh [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.0 x 57.8 [map: printed area 43.8 x 57.8, plate 45.0 x 58.7].

Number of parts:

1

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Isolated buildings pictorial.

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 287.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

prominent hills

Ferries:

ferry

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated, marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:2500

1:10,560