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Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Dunbar-1830

CBTM:
21974
Map Date:
1830
Repository reference:
NLS [open access photocopy]
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Dunbar
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT680790
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 6877
Map title:
'Plan of Dunbar from actual survey by John Wood Edinr. 1830.'
Comments on map:
The frontages only are mapped of some premises near the harbour: the blocks in question all seem to be in single ownership or occupancy. Scale assumed to be in English chains.
Scale:
1:2376
Map-maker:
John Wood, Edinr [sv], W. Murphy, Edinr [eng], William Murphy, Edinburgh, and William Miller, Dunbar [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
42.0 x 46.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
partly
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, harbours, piers
Sanitary and utility information:
misc: Wells in streets.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Welfare and charitable:
dispensaries
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover
Known copies of map:
Haddington Library [original]; NASc RHP 49508 [East Lothian District Library facsimile]; NLS (in Map Room, Case 14) [photo].
Industry:
engineering, food/drink, oil/soap etc, ship yards, textiles, abbatoirs
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Castle ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weights [weighing-machine].
Cemeteries:
shown
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1852
1:10,560
1893
1:2500
1:10,560
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