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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
RHP324 |
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Title |
Plan of Aberdeen |
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Dates |
[1661]-1750 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Access conditions |
This record has been digitally imaged and will not be produced for readers. The digital images may be seen in the NRS Search Rooms on the 'Virtual Volumes' system or on the ScotlandsPeople website http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. |
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Location |
On site (Sighthill) |
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Description |
'Abredonia Novae et Veteris Descriptio.' By Gordon of Rothiemay.
[c 1:7200] 1 inch = 200 walking paces. 632 x 700 mm. Manuscript copy.
Copy of Gordon of Rothiemay's plan of Aberdeen, circa 1661, made in 1750. It is considerably simplified from the original. Many details and decorative insets such as the city insignia have been omitted, it also lacks perspective view of King's College and references. Town blocked in with three buildings shown in perspective view. Some land use indicated - cornfields, marsh and pasture. Ruins of sick house, bishop's dovecot, Spittall Church, roads, tracks, gibbet, windmill, Gordon's and Keithak's Mills, farms of Sunnyside, Cottoun of Ferryhill and Upper Torry noted. Harbour shown with fishers' shiels, fishers' haven, blockhouse and six small drawings of sailing vessels. Relief by perspective hill drawing. Inset plan of east Aberdeenshire: scale [1 inch = 1.5 Scottish miles].
Published in Spalding Club, 1842. |
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Level |
Item |
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Extent |
1 plan, flat |
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Copies |
Imaged for the Charting the Nation project. |
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Copyright |
Crown Copyright |
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Format |
Plan |
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Related material |
Process |
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Archival history |
Supplementary list of maps and plans produced in Court of Session Processes. |
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| PL174 | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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