Benholm -- North Bute

EXPLANATORY REMARKS.
Tho Scale of the Parish Plans is the 1-2500th of the ictual length on the
ground, and is equal to 25'344 inches to a mile, or 3*157 chain - to an in. !.,
which is very approximately equal to one square inch to one acre, the square of
1 *0018 inch being equal to one acre.
Tho length of each sheet is iJ2- miles, and the breadth 1 mile, the area of each
si’eet is therefore 960 acres.
Each enclosure has a reference number to the area which is given in this Book ;
V! ’ll" caso towns and large villages encircled by a red band, one number am1
'troa only are given for the portion within the red band, unless they are contained
in more than one parish, in which case a number is given for the portion included
in each parish.
I he Braces [ <S ] on the plans arc to indicate that the spaces so braced are in¬
cluded under the same reference number.
The Altitudes in feet above the Mean Level of the Sea are written thus 3 / ‘4.
The Scale ol tho County Plans is 6 inches to a mile, and each sheet contains
16 shoots of 1 he Parish Plans. There is therefore a double reference number j,o
o, eh sheet of the Parish Plans, as VI. 9., the first number referring to the County
Plans, the second number to the Parish Plans.
'llu- dimensions of the sheets on the Six-inch scale being four miles by six miles
tho area is twenty-four square miles, equal to 15,360 acres.
Die following are the characters employed on the Ordnance Plans on the Scales
of 1-2500, and 6 inches to a mile 2—
County Names
Parishes, Ancient or Mother 1 £
Extra Parochial
Municipal Wards.
Hundreds or Wards
Civil Parishes or Townships 'X1'
Division of Townships
ROMAN
Ajlti‘iuities - ...<
otSubseqtient
The descriptions of the boundaries are shown by the following initials :•
Centre of Stream C.S.
Centre of Road
Side of Stream or Drain or S.D.
Root of Hedge R.H.
Face of Wall v FJV.
Undefined.......,.,
Centre of Fence
Top of Cop T.C
Centre of Wall _ C.IV.
Defaced ^ ^
Track of Stream V S
Und.
W here a change occurs in the boundaries, the symbol [o—o] is used to show the
part at which the change takes place.
N.B.—The areas are computed to the centre of fence, or other boundasy of
enclosure, except in the following cases :
d.) W he a the fence or other boundary is also the boundarv of a Paris! or oth«i Pivil Dm,; I ,
S the Centre 0f the fence>the area is <0 the Pansn or
Ihe fences, &c., bounding either side of a railway are included wholly within its
acea.