Fife-Cupar-1820
CBTM:
22036
Map Date:
1820
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Fife
Town name:
Cupar
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NO375145
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NO 3615
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Cupar surveyed by John Wood. 1820.'
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 66-foot chains. Table of parishes in Fife with population in 1811 on left.
Scale:
1:3168
Map-maker:
John Wood, Canaan, Edinburgh [sv, pb], Cupar [sell].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
60.7 x 50.7 [map: plate 63.2 x 53.2].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, archways: 'Ladder' effects are probably archways through buildings.
Turnpikes:
shown: South Tool has Steelyard.
Mills:
watermills
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
magazines/arsenals
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
cross: [+ in circle].
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
RSGS '199' [I-01]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermark Smith & Allnutt 1828: residual hair-lines, etc, suggest plate not much printed from], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; National Archives of Scotland RHP 30432; NLS [website].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, food/drink, textiles, misc: Coach Work.
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Relief:
shown partially: [Evidently mounds, etc].
Miscellaneous buildings and structures:
Temple [in garden].
Agricultural and animal-keeping:
kennels
Tenement boundaries group:
intersections with frontages only: Mostly frontages only.
Ordnance Survey's
1854
1:1056
1:10,560
1893-4
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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