Fife-Burntisland-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21973

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

NLS [open access photocopy]

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

Burntisland

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT233857

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2290

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Burt-Island from actual survey by J. Wood Edinburgh 1824'.

Comments on map:

Scale in 74-foot chains.

Scale:

1:3000

Map-maker:

John Wood, Edinburgh [sv], T. Clerk [eng], Peter Brown and Thomas Nelson, Edinr [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

48.5 x 40.3

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information, other: A few frontages, top right, in New Town.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, misc: Dry Dock.

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

NASc RHP 17495; NLS [photocopy]; NLS [website].

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Including ministers of churches].

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown

Stated measuerments:

soundings: In harbour: remarkably dense.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Some in most built-up part evidently missing.

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:10,560

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560