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Fife-Cupar-1642

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
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