Fife-St Andrews-1775 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21992

Map Date:

20.6.1775

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.49.82

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

St Andrews

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO513167

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 5216

Map title:

'Plan of St Andrews.'

Comments on map:

Inset top left on John Ainslie, 'The counties of Fife and Kinross with the Rivers Forth and Tay', 1:63,360. Scale assumed to be in Scots chains.

Scale:

1:3552

Map-maker:

John Ainslie [sv, eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

36.5 x 19.0 [inset: maximum].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Known copies of map:

BLML K.49.82, Maps 8895(5), BOL Gough Maps Scotland 42, CUL Maps.b.140.77.1, NLS, [St Andrews Library-QHF], St Andrews University Library [1775], NASc RHP 3801, RHP 3814, RHP 9424, RGS MR Scotland D.3 [515456]; NASc RHP 30431 [photo]; NLS [website] [1775]; BLML Maps 8895 (2), BOL C18 a.1 [1801: Faden].

Industry:

food/drink, misc: Wauk Mill.

Gardens:

shown

Antiquities:

Cathedral, church and castle ruins, buried remains of buildings.

Waterbodies:

shown

Borders:

decorative: Extended olive-branches.

Dedicee of map:

[Main map:] Major General John Scott, M.P. for Fife.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1893

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560