Inverness-shire-Inverness-1773
CBTM:
21878
Map Date:
1773
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 672
Historic county:
Inverness-shire
Town name:
Inverness
Map type:
Hydrographic
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NH667454
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NH 6646
Map title:
'A plan of the River Ness with the banks and lands adjacent... made out from an accurate survey in Septemr 1774 by John Home'.
Comments on map:
Has elements of both chart and land map: town is not shown in great detail.
Scale:
1:9756*
Map-maker:
John Home [sv], A. Bell [eng].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
48.8 x 69.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
partly
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Large outlying houses pictorial.
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours, navigation aids, piers, quays
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only, (pictorial)
Penal:
misc, (pictorial): Gibbet [one service-user].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 672 [1774]; Highland Archive (Inverness) D38/1a, 1b [photocopies]; NASc RHP 35946 [C19 version]; NASc RHP 14095 [1830: litho version]; NASc RHP 24452 [photo of 1830 version]; Inverness Public Library [1862: facsimile in Tranactions of the Inverness Field Club].
Industry:
textiles
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Gardens:
nurseries
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
Two sailing vessels in sea.
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown
Stated measuerments:
other: River, etc, widths.
Ordnance Survey's
1867
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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