Elginshire [Morayshire]-Rothes-1859 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21954

Map Date:

1859

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 11831

Historic county:

Elginshire [Morayshire]

Town name:

Rothes

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NJ278494

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NJ 2850

Map title:

'Plan of the lands of Rothes, Elchies and Dandaleith the property of The Right Honourable The Earl of Seafield in the County of Moray by George Gordon 1859'.

Comments on map:

Highly finished; evidently suitable for viewing by his lordship.

Scale:

1:7920

Map-maker:

George Gordon [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

160 x 92

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners, transport.: Railway coloured green.

Building names:

clergy residences, partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 11831.

Industry:

distilling

Railways:

routes, named, passenger stations

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Old Castle.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Some owners or occupiers of houses].

Relief:

prominent hills

Arms and heraldry:

principal landowner.: [In north pointer boss: presumed thus].

Ordnance Survey's

1870

1:2500

1:10,560