Inverness-shire-Inverness-1754 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22452

Map Date:

[1754]

Repository reference:

BL 10370.bbb.25

Historic county:

Inverness-shire

Town name:

Inverness

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NH667454

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NH 6646

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Inverness.'

Comments on map:

F.t.p. in Vol I. of Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London..., London: Birt, 1754. Scale is about 1 inch to 212 feet.

Scale:

1:2544

Map-maker:

F. Garden [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

10.3 x 11.3 [map: 10.3 x 15.8 overall].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: No churches shown.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Known copies of map:

Aberdeen University Library, BL 10370.bbb.25, 287.c.30, 287.c.31, BOL MS Gough Gen Top 15 fol 125, Inverness Public Library, NLS F.5.g.1 [1754: in Edward Burt, Letters from a gentleman in the North of Scotland... 1754]; BL G.5239-40, 797.h.3, 1430.e.20, NLS K.157.d [1759].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on scroll.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1867

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560