Inverness-shire-Inverness-1841 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22925

Map Date:

1841

Repository reference:

Highland Council Archive [Inverness], D38/10

Historic county:

Inverness-shire

Town name:

Inverness

Map type:

boundaries

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NH667454

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NH 6646646

Map title:

'Outline plan of the town and suburbs of Inverness exhibiting the old royalty and new parliamentary boundaries and also the different landward properties within these boundaries whether belonging to private individuals or public bodies 1841'.

Comments on map:

Apparently from Inverness Burgh papers. Uninformative on strictly 'urban' points.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

McLean & Morrison, Surveyors [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

177 x 177

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries, owners: Grey buildings; some ownership colouring.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Frontages only in town east of river: in detail west of river.

Mills:

windmills

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, piers, misc: Posts in and alongside river.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, misc: Dung Stance.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

magazines/arsenals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets, misc: Proposed new markets.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough, Ward, misc: Old Royalty.

Known copies of map:

Highland Archive (Inverness) D.38/10, /35 [including version copied by G. Mackay & Co.].

Industry:

food/drink

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated), dated value: 26.30' on 22 June 1841.

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Cromwell's Fort.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in built-up part].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Ferries:

ferry

Cemeteries:

shown: [Burial grounds, but no churches].

Estate boundary ownership:

apparently incomplete

Stated measuerments:

other: Some field acreages for towns property, to three decimal places.

Ordnance Survey's

1867

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560