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Fife-Burntisland-1743

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
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