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Kirkcudbrightshire-Kirkcudbright-1776

CBTM:
22776
Map Date:
1.1776
Repository reference:
National Archives of Scotland RHP 22776
Historic county:
Kirkcudbrightshire
Town name:
Kirkcudbright
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NX682509
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NX 6454
Map title:
'Plan of the Town of Kirkcudbright and of the lands belonging thereto lying south of Boreland Burn also of the intermixed & adjoining lands. John Gilone Jany 1776.'
Comments on map:
Recorded from reduced photocopy (scale and dimensions compensated) of copy by G. Nicholson, 1969.
Scale:
1:3552
Map-maker:
John Gilone [sv].
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
47 x 72
Number of parts:
1
Building names:
important buildings only, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Some outlying and 'important' buildings, e.g. castle, shown pictorially.
Mills:
watermills
Water transport infrastructure:
quays: ['Landing place where ships unload'].
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Named wells: one noted as supplying town with water.
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative: [Town House: pictorial, with spire (correct)].
Penal:
gallows, (pictorial): [Unoccupied].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, (pictorial)
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
National Archives of Scotland RHP 35882 [1969 transcript].
Industry:
lime/cement, textiles
River and foreshore features:
misc: Yards [fish weirs].
Gardens:
nurseries
Antiquities:
Old Danish Camp alias Castle Dyke Hills.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary for location purposes
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: To left: fish, ?nets, tree; below and to right: timber balks, barrels, bales, ships.
Symbolic elements:
Fish, nets, tree, timber balks, barrels, bales, ships: surround cartouche.
Miscellaneous service buildings:
[Store Yard, Storehouses].
Arms and heraldry:
municipal: [Assumed thus: ship: at top of reference to town lands].
Ferries:
ferry
Cemeteries:
shown: [Church Yard: but no church].
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1852
1:1056
1:10,560
1894
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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