Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh: New Town-1811

CBTM:

22018

Map Date:

[1811]

Repository reference:

BL 010370.i.88

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Edinburgh: New Town

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NT252740

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Map title:

'Plan of New Edinburgh'.

Comments on map:

F.p.21 in The travellers guide through Scotland, fifth edition, Edinburgh, London: J. Thomson, Jun., John Murray. Some copies have attribution of engraving to J. Pillans & Son for J. Thomson.

Scale:

1:13,500*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

16.8 x 9.2

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

house numbers

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Projected building without infill.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

orphanages

Education and academic:

observatories

Known copies of map:

BL 010370.i.88 [1811]; BL 14300.a.15 [1814: ed 5]; NLS NE.19.a.7 [1814: ed 6, Vol I, fp 19]; BL 797.c.28, 797.c.29 [1818: ed 5]; NLS NE.18.g.6 [1824, ed 8, Vol i]; NE.18.g.14 [1826, ed 9, fp 34]; BL 797.c.7 [1829: still ed 5].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Relief:

prominent hills

Cemeteries:

shown

Ordnance Survey's

1851-3

1:1056

1:10,560

1876-7

1:1056

1:10,560

1893-4

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560