Haddingtonshire [East Lothian]-North Berwick-1804 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21843

Map Date:

1804

Repository reference:

SRO RHP 1726

Historic county:

Haddingtonshire [East Lothian]

Town name:

North Berwick

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT553853

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 5685

Map title:

'Reduced plan of the estate of North Berwick belonging to ['the Honble.': deleted] Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton Bart. Surveyed by Wm. Forrest. 1804.'

Comments on map:

Tables of contents round map, but only includes part of the town. Scale is 1 inch to 6 Scottish chains of 74 ft 4ins, 1:5352.

Scale:

1:5328

Map-maker:

William Forrest [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

135 x 103

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

ownership: Colours of buildings in town, according to whether owned by Sir Hew, or the town, or feued.

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, owners, decorative

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc 1726 [original]; NASc RHP 10212 [photo].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

slopes shown

Borders:

decorative: Coloured bands.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Post and telegraphs:

misc: Signal Post.

Towers:

tower: [Wall Tower].

Estate boundary ownership:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete

Ordnance Survey's

1853

1:10,560

1892-3

1:2500

1:10,560