The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

Maps

Ordnance Survey One-inch to the mile, Popular edition, Scotland, 1920-1930.
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland

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1854 6-inches to the mile (1:10560), geo-referenced, or clearer copy, not geo-referenced at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1895 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), geo-referenced, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), East Newport, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), West Newport, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), Wormit, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), Wormit Farm / Newton, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), area around the five-roads / St Fort, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), area around old Forgan church, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1914 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), area around Chesterhill, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1944-50 aerial photograph, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1952-61 1-inch to the mile (1:63360), geo-referenced, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1960s 6-inches to the mile (1:10560), geo-referenced, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)
1966-73 25-inches to the mile (1:2500), geo-referenced for all except the extreme west of Wormit & Newton, at the National Library of Scotland (opens in a new tab / window)

Maps on this site:

Ordnance Survey [Map] Name Books, 1854

Links to Maps on other Sites:

Aerial photos:

NCAP - the National Collection of Aerial Photography	NCAP - the National Collection of Aerial Photography (part of Historic Environment Scotland) has a huge collection of aerial photos from around the world. There are several hundred views of Newport, Wormit & Forgan, taken at various dates from the 1940s, possibly even earlier. Keep enlarging the map to find the location of the centre of each photo.
Britain From Above	has a smaller collection, probably a sub-set of those on the NCAP site, and are not easily searched.

Maps:

National Library of Scotland map collection	The best site for Scottish maps. home page the earliest 17th, 18th and early 19th century maps of Fife; the Newport / Wormit / Forgan area also appears on some of the maps of Angus using the geo-referenced maps you can view historic maps overlaid on a modern map or satellite view, or side by side Blaeu, East part of Fife, 1654 Blaeu, East part of Fife, 1662 Adair, East part of Fife, 1684 Moll, Shires of Fife and Kinross, 1745 Roy's Military Survey, 1747-55. NB There are notable errors here - eg locations of Flass, Gateside & Kirktonbarns Ainslie, 1775, County of Fife and small part to east Ainslie, 1801, The counties of Fife and Kinross with the rivers Forth and Tay and small part to east Robert Stevenson, 1817, Proposed improvements at Newport Harbour John Steedman, 1824 & 1825, Plan of the Coast from Newport to Craighead Thomson, 1827, 1828, Fife with Kinross Shire Sharp, Greenwood & Fowler, 1828, Fife and Kinross Sharp, Greenwood & Fowler, 1828, Fife and Kinross (coloured) plans from the Dundee Directories from 1901 - 1939 First Land Utilisation Survey 1932-33 (1 inch to the mile) and Second Land Utilisation Survey c. 1964 (6 inches to the mile)
ScotlandsPeople	Registration (free) is required. Maps are free to view and download. --> Search our records --> Maps and Plans --> Select County: Fife, Select Parish: Forgan; leave other selection boxes blank 8 plans are online at present: RHP87, Plan of the sea wall and embankment at Newport, Fife, [1842, from court case Berry v. Landale & Holden; is a detailed plan of seashore & bleaching green at Woodmoor (4 West Road); note tidal bath for bathing; NB viewed from the river, North is at the bottom!]. RHP521, Plan of the landing places included in the plan of the River Tay from Ferry Port on Craig and Broughty Castle to Balmerino and Invergowrie Burn, Angus, [from court case involving Scotscraig estate & Railway Companies, detailed map from Scroggieside Farm to Craighead Point, only shows outlines of buildings without text, details between the main road and the river]. RHP522, Plan of the River Tay from Ferry Port On Craig and Broughty Castle to Balmerino and Invergowrie Burn showing all the places on both sides where landing places exist, [similar content to above]. RHP614, Plan of part of the back common of Inverdovat, Fife, [1791, not much detail. The back common lay to the east of Craighead Point (just west of the Road Bridge), between it and the boundary with Ferryport-on-Craig parish]. RHP40712, Feuing plan of part of the lands of St Fort near Woodhaven, Fife, [dated 1874, but with many later additions, covers from foot of Birkhill Ave to Netherlea]. RHP77830, Ordnance Survey 6 inch plan (Perthshire, sheet LXXXVIII.SE; Angus (Forfarshire), parts of sheets LIII & LIV; Fife, parts of sheets III & IV) annotated to indicate presence of Colorado Beetle in area, [1944-54, no annotations or detail shown, the only part of Forgan parish included is 1 field at Wormit Bay]. RHP78947, Ordnance Survey 6 inch plan (Fife, sheet IV.NE) coloured and marked to show types of farming and farm boundaries, [1944-54, farm boundaries in red, each farm is a single colour showing its overall category of farming, woodlands shown separately; farm reference numbers could allow further research]. RHP78948, Ordnance Survey 6 inch plan (Fife, sheet IV.NW) coloured and marked to show types of farming and farm boundaries, [1944-54, farm boundaries in red, each farm is a single colour showing its overall category of farming, woodlands shown separately; farm reference numbers could allow further research]. There is overlap with ScotlandsPlaces - see next entry. In theory both sites should have the same map content. In practice, it's not the case.
ScotlandsPlaces: Forgan page	Amongst the lists of photographs are catalogue entries for maps and plans held by the National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh. (If you 'Filter the Results' for 'NRS' only, you will get a listing of the maps & plans only: Filtered Results) Only 2 of the plans are online at present: feuing plan of part of St. Fort near Woodhaven, RHP40712, dated 1874, but with many later additions. [the location given on the ScotlandsPlaces site is wrong] plan of part of the Back Common of Inverdovat, RHP614, 1791, not much detail. The back common lay to the east of Craighead Point (just west of the Road Bridge), between it and the boundary with Ferryport-on-Craig parish. [the location given on the ScotlandsPlaces site is wrong]
Vision of Britain	Land Utilisation Maps (1930s), and others.
PastMap	Mapping showing the location of historical buildings and archaeological sites recorded by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Scotland's Land Information Service	The Registers of Scotland map of Scottish present-day land ownership.

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