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Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1771

CBTM:
23308
Map Date:
[1771]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.26.a.23
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Abbotsbury, Edinburgh
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NT257736
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
[On map:] 'A plan of the City of Edinburgh.'; [top, outside neat line]: 'Plan of the new town of Edinburgh'.
Comments on map:
Top right: 'II': f.p.9 of John Andrews, A collection of plans of the capital cities of Europe..., I, London: Andrews, 1771: three-page letterpress description follows. Scale-bar suggests 1:3960: comparative measurement suggests about 1:7500. Includes New Town, shown as completely built up.
Scale:
1:7500*
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
30.2 x 18.5 [map: plate 30.7 x 18.8].
Number of parts:
1
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured: 'ordinary' buildings are otherwise without infill.
Road names:
partly
Building names:
royal palaces
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Known copies of map:
CW11: BLML Maps 27.b.2 [1771]; BLML Maps 1.b.13, RGS MR 7.C.1(2) [515577] [1772]; NLS EMS.s.58; RSGS '314' [CW11].
Industry:
food/drink, misc: Mint.
Gardens:
shown
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Relief:
prominent hills: [Castle and Calton hills].
Symbolic elements:
Female with lyre, female with globe, naked boy with dividers, Brittania: surround title.
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weigh House.
Cemeteries:
shown: [Abby Church Yard [at Holyrood]: with crosses].
Tenement boundaries group:
generalised/schematic
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
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