Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1759 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22797

Map Date:

1759

Repository reference:

SL 145/1/1, /2

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Edinburgh, Leith

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

NT257736

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Map title:

[North sheet:] 'A plan of the lands belonging to the City of Edinburgh, Heriots Hospital, and other heritors on the north of the City, with the town, harbour & citadel of Leith.' [South sheet:] 'A plan of the lands belonging to the City of Edinburgh, Heriots Hospital, and other heritors Surveyed & Drawn by John Scott 1759'.

Comments on map:

Edinburgh and Leith proper are not mapped.

Scale:

1:1200

Map-maker:

[North sheet:] John Fergus & Robert Robinson [sv, dr], [South sheet:] John Scott [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

249 x 305 [north sheet], 230 x 237 [south sheet].

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, decorative

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

partly

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Identifiable by shape.

Public buildings:

Parliament

Penal:

gallows, (pictorial): [Two service-users].

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Edinburgh City Archives SL 145/2/2 [former City Arch.1] [north sheet], Edinburgh City Archives SL 145/2/2 [former City Arch.3] [south sheet] [1759]; Edinburgh City Archives City Arch.2 [1814: copy by Thos Bonner].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: With pictorial elements round title, roccoco round scales: North: In cartouche: top: Angel blowing trumpet, eagle, agricultural implemrents: right side: flags with pikes; bottom: sheep, plunging horse, cannon [these may refer to the Seven Years War, then going on]; South: cornucopias, at top of title.

Clubs and societies:

trade and livery company halls

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Symbolic elements:

Angel blowing trumpet, eagle, agricultural implemrents, flags, pikes, sheep, plunging horse, cannon, cornucopias: surround titles.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [Top of cartouche: south sheet only].

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

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