Early Feus on Tayfield Estate
The South Coast of the Tay along the Estate of Tayfield the property of William Berry, Esq., c. 1840
This map is held at the National Records of Scotland, RHP30444. It is not (yet) available online.
I have drawn the feuing areas content of the map onto current mapping and have also shown the earlier estate boundaries. The map covers the area within the blue dashed line, and was drawn sometime about 1840. Not all buildings in the High Street area, Broadhaugh and Marytown are shown on the original. However, the main purpose of the map appears to have been to show the much older feus which had been consolidated into Tayfield estate. This is the only known map to show these boundaries.
The original uses letters as a key to the feus, I have used colours. The full key is given here.
| • | a a | Wellgate formerly Adam's Feu now Mr Stewart's |
| • | b | Pluck the Crow feued to Kirkaldy reacquired by Mr Berry |
| • | c | Just's feu and subfeus |
| d | Abercraig formerly feued to Russel reacquired by Mr Berry | |
| • | e | Sea Mill Water formerly feued to Russel reacquired by Mr Berry |
| from d to e | Mr Stewart's Fishing held in feu of Mr Berry | |
| • | f | Woodmuir Park formerly Drummond's feu now Mr Stewart's |
| • | i | Formerly Landale's Feu now Mr Holden's |
| • | g | Formerly Russel's Feu reacquired by Mr Berry |
| h | Broadhaugh Fishing the property of Mr Stewart | |
| • | k | Black's Feu, formerly Feathers, reacquired by Mr Berry |
| • | l | Formerly Hay's Feu reacquired by Mr Berry |
| m | Fishing formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| • | n | Kempstone formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry |
| o | Craighead Rock formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| p | Dryburgh Hole formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| s | Low Water Fishing formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| t | High Water Fishing formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| x | Ground formerly used by the Fishers, road to it now closed, formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry | |
| • | y | Craighead Feus formerly part of Scotscraig Estate, purchased by Mr Berry |
| • | z | Mr Rodger's Feu held under Mr Berry as Proprietor of Tayfield |
| A | Eel Craig | |
| B | Seacraig | |
| C | The Briggs |