Lewis [in Ross-shire]-Stornoway-1785 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23028

Map Date:

1785

Repository reference:

Stornoway Public Library

Historic county:

Lewis [in Ross-shire]

Town name:

Stornoway

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NB423328

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NB 4235

Map title:

'A plan of the harbour bay and town of Stornoway with adjoining lands Port of the Island of Lewis belonging heitably to Frances Humbertson Mackenzie Esq of Seaforth. Made out from an accurate survey taken Anno 1785.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from data supplied by Stornoway Public Library. Summary of contents, bottom left.

Scale:

1:3552

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

109 x 152

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: ['Old Castle'].

Known copies of map:

Stornoway Public Library.

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, foreshore material specified

Landowners and occupiers:

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

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Rococco.

Other land-uses & land-cover:

heath/uncultivated

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1849

1:10,560

1895

1:2500

1:10,560