Fife-Cupar-1832 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21682

Map Date:

2.1.1832

Repository reference:

NLS Signet s.51

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:

'... United parishes of Cupar and St Michaels... sketch originally drawn out to assist in the allocation of the ministers' stipends...'

Comments on map:

The town occupies only a limited part of the map. Bottom right is 'Table of the valued rent of the united parishes... as at 1825', in Scots money: town is 'assumed' at 1912 pounds, with no further details. Lithography not over-refined: noticably inferior to Kemp & Nicholls, e.g., never mind Standidge tithe maps. Dedicated by J.G.

Scale:

1:12,672

Map-maker:

J.G., Com. Agt. [? author], D. Miller [dr], W. Ballatine, Lith., Edinr. [lith].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

76.0 x 52.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

clergy residences, outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

(unspecified type)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

NLS Signet.s.51, NASc RHP 4397.

Industry:

textiles

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

Druid's burial and altar, Site of St Michaels Church.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Not in built-up part: otherwise extensive].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left, at bottom of cartouche: parish church, from south-west.

Relief:

prominent hills

Borders:

latitude & longitude shown: Minutes divided into 8, i.e. 7.5-second intervals.

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Thistle and motto: as tip to north pointer.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [At top of cartouche].

Estate boundary ownership:

apparently incomplete: [Not in built-up part].

Dedicee of map:

The heritors of the united parishes.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560