Kirkcudbrightshire-Castle Douglas-1793 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21966

Map Date:

1793

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 6080

Historic county:

Kirkcudbrightshire

Town name:

Castle Douglas

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NX763622

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NX 8161

Map title:

'A plan of the barony of Castle Douglas... the property of William Douglas Esquire Survey'd by John Gillone 1793.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from photocopy at about 82 %: applies to town area only.

Scale:

1:1776

Map-maker:

John Gillone [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

122 x 150

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

general legend

Colouring:

Buildings, land-use, owners, decorative: Possibly others.

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

misc: Well.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 6180 [photo].

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Magnetic data:

diagram, dated value: North pointer with magnetic variation for 1792, presumably designed to be measured off.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary for location purposes

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

pictorial 'realistic': Bottom left, as background to title: loch with two sailing vessels and town behind (with church or a steeple: not on map) to left, mansion and park to right; below are fishermen and ruminating and grazing cattle.

Relief:

slopes shown

Borders:

decorative: Rectangular-keyboard-without-accidentals: an early example.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Hedges and dykes.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1848

1:10,560

1894

1:2500

1:10,560