Fife-Cupar-1642 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23135

Map Date:

1642

Repository reference:

National Library of Scotland [map room] Gordon 53

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

Cupar

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO375145

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 3615

Map title:

'Cowper of Fyff descrybed be I.G. Cupbra, Fifae' [sic].

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Fyfe Shire MDCXLII Fifa provincia noviter delineata autore Jacobo Gordano F. R.G. a Strathloch'.

Scale:

1:6000*

Map-maker:

I.G. [James Gordon] [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

14.7 x 8.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

NLS Gordon 53; NLS [website]; BL 10370.g.18 [1895: A.H. Millar, Fife, pictorial & historical, I, 1895].

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

(pictorial)

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560