Fife-Kirkcaldy-1824 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22058

Map Date:

1824

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

Kirkcaldy

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT278915

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2290

Map title:

'Plan of the town of Kirkcaldy from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1824'.

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 74-foot chains.

Scale:

1:2664

Map-maker:

John Wood, Canaan [sv], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [sell].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

42.5 x 54.5 [map: plate 45.2 x 56.5].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Ornamental steps to buildings.

Turnpikes:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, piers, misc: Shipping Company's Office.

Sanitary and utility information:

municipal depots, misc: Wells in street; [Dung Depot].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

misc: Publick Buildings.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

volunteer parade grounds

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Kirkcaldy Public Library; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].

Industry:

salt, distilling, engineering, textiles

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Gardens:

nurseries: ['Furrow' effect].

Magnetic data:

diagram, value (undated)

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown: [Including ministers, innkeepers and bank managers].

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Extractive activity:

coal, quarries/pits: One is 'Crop Pit'.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown, coffee houses: [Coffee Room].

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: Not for 'Collier's Houses'.

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1894

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560