Perthshire-Auchterarder-1763 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22785

Map Date:

? 1763

Repository reference:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 37876

Historic county:

Perthshire

Town name:

Auchterarder

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NN945128

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NN 9612

Map title:

'A plan of the Barony of Auchterarder'.

Comments on map:

Recorded from negative photocopy, 67%: dimensions compensated. Estate map, dated 1763 in NAS catalogue: later additions, e.g. 'part of the annexed estate of Perth' to the title. Written description of Town of Auchterarder, bottom right, noting possiblities for change: notes there are about 120 families. 'They are in general a civilised, humane, and industrious sort of people, very tractable in learning any thing that may tend to their advantage and its hoped will be forward enough to improvements, they were not only loyal but suffered for the same.'

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Leslie [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

115 x 120

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 37876 [negative photo].

Waterbodies:

shown

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Belvedere [? name of house].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1863

1:2500

1:10,560

1899-1900

1:2500

1:10,560