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Fife-Kirkcaldy-1824

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
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