Elginshire [Morayshire]-Fochabers-1770 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21880

Map Date:

? 1770

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 2381

Historic county:

Elginshire [Morayshire]

Town name:

Fochabers

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ344587

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 3660

Map title:

'A plan of Gordon Castle Park... with the Town and Lands of Fochabers... The Seat of His Grace Alexander Duke of Gordon....'

Comments on map:

Dating from vignette of Gordon Castle. Catalogue attributes to Thomas Milne.

Scale:

1:2664

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

192 x 200

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

other: Note that some rides, etc, are a design for access through planations.

Colouring:

water, land-use

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 2381.

Industry:

textiles

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Around title and scale: bottom of that round title is lost, but seems to have contained something decorative.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: south front of Gordon Castle, mostly lost.

Relief:

prominent hills

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [Above title: presumed thus].

Ferries:

ferry

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1869

1:2500

1:10,560