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

CBTM:

21677

Map Date:

[1759]

Repository reference:

NLS Signet s.80

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Edinburgh, Leith

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT257736

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Map title:

'A plan of the city of Edinburgh with the adjacent grounds.'

Comments on map:

For the Scots Magazine, 1759: down-market, only included on grounds of scale.

Scale:

1:15,840

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

39.0 x 39.5

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

colours

Colouring:

owners: Town property red, hospital lands yellow: hand-coloured.

Road names:

important roads only

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, some or all buildings omitted.: Lesser streets wholly omitted.

Turnpikes:

shown

Mills:

windmills, watermills, (pictorial)

Penal:

misc, (pictorial): Gibbets: not in use.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries: Pictorial.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CW6,7. BOL Gough Maps Scotland 74, Edinburgh City Museum [MS]; Edin City Archt; SGM 1919 [redn fr City Archt copy]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.759 [D.36161, G.32833], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NLS Signet.s.80, MS.17602, f.187 [engraved version by Richard Cooper, in Scots Magazine, 1759: CW7].

Industry:

glass, rope walk, timber

Parkland:

public parks

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few outlying ones].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Relief:

cliffs

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

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