Fife-Dunfermline-1823 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22042

Map Date:

1823

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

Dunfermline

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT092874

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 1292

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Dunfermline from actual survey by J. Wood Edinr. 1823.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 66-foot chains.

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

J. Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57.0 x 49.5 [map: plate 61.5 x 52.2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

watermills, (unspecified type)

Sanitary and utility information:

water works: [Filtering Basin].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

National Archives of Scotland RHP 1685j, RSGS '01(28)' [H-08]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; Dunfermline Library, Local Studies [framed on wall]; NLS [website].

Industry:

engineering, oil/soap etc, textiles

Railways:

industrial tramways/waggonways

Gardens:

nurseries

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Tower, palace ruins, site of Queens House.

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown incompletely: [Mostly outlying: includes innkeepers and ministers].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Miscellaneous transport-related:

Proposed street indicated by pecked lines.

Crosses:

cross, (symbol): [Open circle with cross, i.e. similar to Ordnance Survey symbol].

Cemeteries:

shown

Miscellaneous street furniture:

Mile Stone.

Miscellaneous physical features:

Named cave.

Garden and park buildings:

misc: Dovecot.

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Patchy.

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1896

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560