Fife-St Andrews-1642 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22929

Map Date:

? 1642

Repository reference:

NLS [map library] Gordon 53 [photocopy]

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

St Andrews

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO513167

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 5216

Map title:

'Saint Andrews

Comments on map:

Inset on 'Fyfe Shire MDCXLII Fifa provincia noviter delineata autore Jacobo Gordano F. R.G. a Strathloch'. Scale of 'walking paces': 30-inchers assumed.

Scale:

1:5,400

Map-maker:

J.G. [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.8 x 11.3 [excluding reference].

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial): [Looks like tower mill].

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

NLS Gordon 53; NLS [website]; BL Ac.8248/19, CUL S474.b.82.24 [in the Bannatyne Miscellany, Vol 3, p.324, 1855]; [St Andrews Library-QHF], St Andrews University Library; NLS [filed with Gordon MS 53] [1895: facsimile in A.H. Millan, Fife: pictorial and historical, Vol I].

Antiquities:

Abbey ruins.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

cliffs

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1893

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560