Fife-Burntisland-1743 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21993

Map Date:

? 1743

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.49.85.1

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

Burntisland

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT233857

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2290

Map title:

'A plan of Burntisland town, harbour & fortifications... surveyed & drawn by John Elphinstone P.Engr.'

Comments on map:

Bottom right quarter of paper is occupied by sailing directions into Burnisland Road. BL catalogue says 1743. (Style is not standard Board of Ordnance.)

Scale:

1:5280

Map-maker:

John Elphinstone P.Engr.[sv, dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

31.7 x 21.7

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

Buildings, decorative, general highlighting of district, other, uncertain: Most land tinted yellow-green; fort and cam infilled red; roads outside walls sienna.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, harbours

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, misc.: Fort; Hessian Camp.

Known copies of map:

BL K.top.49.85.1 [original]; NLS [photo].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title in a sort of fireplace, sailing directions on 'rock'.

Relief:

prominent hills

Post and telegraphs:

flagstaff

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial sailing vessels outside harbour.

Stated measuerments:

soundings: In and just outside harbour.

Tenement boundaries group:

generalised/schematic

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:10,560

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560