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Fife-Lochgelly-1774

CBTM:
21854
Map Date:
1774
Repository reference:
NASc RHP 3569
Historic county:
Fife
Town name:
Lochgelly
Map type:
estate
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NT186935
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2290
Map title:
' A plan of the new town of Lochgelly 1774'.
Comments on map:
Recorded from negative photocopy; parts of original lost, and what seems to be mapmaker, bottom right, isn't readable. Names of feurs down left-hand side. Pattern of building suggests that what is shown may be real rather than projected. Scale of Gunter's Scotch Chains; 74-footers assumed.
Scale:
1:1180
Production mode:
manuscript
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
40.0 x 40.5
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, roads: Buildings shown with hipped roofs in plan.
Buildings:
shown
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
NASc RHP 3569.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative: Rococco.
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1853-4
1:10,560
1894
1:2500
1:10,560
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