Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1807 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22812

Map Date:

? 1807

Repository reference:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/246

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Edinburgh, Leith

Map type:

Military

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT257736

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Map title:

'Sketch of the environs of Edinburgh and Leith with the works projected for their defence'.

Comments on map:

List of numbers of towers and redoubts under title: scheme was unfulfilled.

Scale:

1:10,800

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

97.0 x 64.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

'standard' colour scheme, land-use, other: Proposed defences.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised: Outlying pictorial church, windmill and two large buildings.

Water transport infrastructure:

docks

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries, misc.: Proposed defences.

Known copies of map:

TNA [PRO] MPHH 1/246 [WO 78/1774].

River and foreshore features:

foreshore

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

slopes shown

Stated measuerments:

other: Lengths of ditch or embankment in proposed defences.

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