Fife-Burntisland-1824
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
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