Fife-St Andrews-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22071

Map Date:

1820

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

Historic county:

Fife

Town name:

St Andrews

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NO513167

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NO 5216

Map title:

'Plan of the city of St Andrews surveyed by John Wood Edinburgh 1820.'

Comments on map:

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

Scale:

1:3168

Map-maker:

John Wood [sv], N. Douglas [eng].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

62.3 x 52.5

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

shown, archways, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: 'Ladders' are probably arched passages.

Turnpikes:

shown: One with Steelyard.

Water transport infrastructure:

piers

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, misc: Wells in streets: one named.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, internal revenue, misc: Steelyard.

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, observatories: [Observatory in Ruins].

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

St Andrews University Library; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas]; NLS [website].

Industry:

food/drink, misc: Coal Shed.

Leisure and entertainment:

libraries/newsrooms

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Cathedral, castle, monastic and other ruins, houses and other places with historical associations (sometimes bloody).

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons

Relief:

shown partially, cliffs: [Mounds].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Towers:

tower: [Named towers].

Cemeteries:

shown

Garden and park buildings:

summer houses

Tenement boundaries group:

intersections with frontages only: Mostly not behind frontages.

Ordnance Survey's

1854

1:1056

1:10,560

1893

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560