Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1771 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

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