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Peterhead sits on a headland, and extends round a rocky bay, on the Buchan coast, thirty-two miles north-east of Aberdeen. Its name is an abbreviation of 'St Peter's headland', and was taken from a church dedicated to St Peter that was built on the shores of the same bay in the twelfth or thirteenth century. This, and two castles, Ravenscraig and I...
Due to the piecemeal nature of its growth, and the geographical limitations of its setting, the centre of Peterhead appears less regular than the centres of many planned Scottish burghs. In Keithinch, the oldest part of the town (sheet XXIII.&.18), streetnames like Shiprow and Ship Street reflect the fact that this was originally purely a fishing v...
The Statistical Account of 1845 and Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland(1857) both make the point that manufacturing in mid-nineteenth century Peterhead was very limited. The town contained a brewery, a brickworks, a dyeworks, a gas works, and a carding and spinning mill, and sea-kelp was gathered to be processed into manure and cattle-feed. The wool, w...
The countryside around Peterhead was generally good mixed farmland, and the Statistical Account of 1845 records that over 90% of the parish was in cultivation, with a little additional land being given over to tree planting. Various improvements had been carried out in the years prior to the Statistical Account, including improving drainage, liming...
The parish church that stood in Peterhead at the time of the survey (sheet XXIII.7.16) had been built in 1808, and could hold a congregation of almost 2,000. A second Church of Scotland church was opened in the parish in 1834. Other denominations represented in mid-nineteenth century Peterhead included Episcopalians, Independents, Methodists and th...
When the 1845 Statistical Account was written, Peterhead's parish school was still taught in a room in the town house, as it had been for more than forty years previously, but the existing parish schoolmaster had applied to have a new schoolhouse erected. It is not clear from the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland(1857) whether a purpose-built school h...
Peterhead's town house was built on three floors, the ground floor holding shops, the first containing the parish school, and the second divided into offices concerned with civic business. In the mid-nineteenth century, the town contained branches of the Commercial Bank, Union Bank, City of Glasgow Bank, Aberdeen Town and County Bank and North of S...
In the 1850s Peterhead was quite well-served with cultural and social amenities. A public subscription library was founded in 1808, and another smaller public library, Peterhead Mechanics' Library, opened in 1836. The town also boasted a public reading room and a news room. The Peterhead Association for Science, Literature and the Arts, which had i...
Map of the Peterhead coastline, North East Scotland, derived from the Bartholomew Half Inch map series of Great Britain.
Town Plans of Peterhead. Detailed maps of Peterhead over time, showing the development of the town. See also Ordnance Survey maps for developments after 1840. Browse Early Town Plans using a graphic index. Select the town plan you wish to view: 1739 - John JAFFRAY - This draught of the town and sea coast about Peterhead...
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Get Google Street View for Peterhead*. View Peterhead in Google Earth. Road Map Peterhead, United Kingdom. Town Centre Map of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Printable Street Map of Central Peterhead, Scotland. Easy to Use, Easy to Print Peterhead Map. Find Parks, Woods & Green Areas in Peterhead Area. Find Churches, Museums & Attractions in ...
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Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895. Town Plan of Peterhead Surveyed: 1868 Scale: 1:500 16 map sheets. You may also view this town plan as a georeferenced overlay on top of modern satellite imagery.
