Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1767 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

23324

Map Date:

? 1767

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 162

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Aberaeron, Edinburgh

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT257736

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Comments on map:

'Old Edinburgh Maps, no.3', in Scottish Geographical Magazine, XXXV, no.8 (August-September-October 1919), ('The ''Edinburgh'' number'), fp [330]. Manuscript original not located, September 2005. Dated 'c.1767': no hint of New Town; seems to be from manuscript original, and the more built-up part has not reproduced very clearly. On p.330 is noted 'As the Distance from Holyrood Palace entrance to the centre of the Castle Esplanade is one mile, the scale of any Map of Edinburgh can easily be found.'

Scale:

1:12,500*

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

28.7 x 18.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Sanitary and utility information:

reservoirs, misc: ['Reservoir or Water House']; named wells.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, workhouses

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CW61: RSGS [MS] [not traced, 9:05]; Edinburgh Library YDA 1828.763 [40239, 42133, A.9384, G.15832, G.24395] [1919: Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol 35, no.8] [CW61].

Gardens:

physic gardens

Parkland:

public parks

Service and professional:

banks

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Crosses:

cross

Cemeteries:

shown

Other land-uses & land-cover:

marsh/wetland: At west end of north loch.

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only

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