Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1780
CBTM:
21988
Map Date:
? 1780
Repository reference:
BLML K.Top.49.62
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Edinburgh
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT257736
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
'... City of Edinburgh... plan....'
Comments on map:
Undated: reputedly 1780. Shows eastern part of New Town mostly built-up, but not the west part. Scale from 1801 edition. Ainslie advertises in addition 'all sorts of drawing and writing papers. Plans of estates reduced or enlarged. N.B. Surveying of lands in all its different branches.'
Scale:
1:4320
Map-maker:
John Ainslie, Geographer, Map and Printsellrer, Edinburgh [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
57.2 x 46.0
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, important buildings only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised: Within city is lightly dotted, outwith is heavily hatched.
Sanitary and utility information:
water works, misc: Well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, police, Parliament, internal revenue, misc: [City Guard].
Defence and military:
castles/forts/batteries, town walls
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses
Education and academic:
observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
CW15a: BOL Gough Maps Scotland 91, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.780 [D.36149, G.8842], EdUL, CUL Maps.bb.138.78.2, NLS EMS.s.59, EMS.s.296, NASc RHP 41889 [1780: CW15a]; RSGS '320' [1780.c]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.780 [D.36140] [CW15A1]; NLS [website]; BLML K.49.62 [?]; BLML K.49.63, BOL C18 a.1, Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NASc RHP 23898 [1801: evid CW15b]; BOL G.A.Edinb.a.1 [1780/1962: Lammerburn Press]; BLML Maps Ref D.6(Europe) (17) [2000: in H.N. Barrot, An atlas of old Edinburgh, Edinburgh: West Port Books, 2000].
Industry:
food/drink
Gardens:
shown, physic gardens: [Old Physic Garden].
Leisure and entertainment:
theatres, etc
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, insurance offices
Antiquities:
[Shown: details not noted.]
Relief:
prominent hills
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Cemeteries:
shown
Dedicee of map:
Rt Hon David Steuart, Esq., Lord Provost.
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
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