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Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1820

CBTM:
21678
Map Date:
1.1.1820
Repository reference:
NLS Signet s.90
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:
'Plan of Edinburgh and strangers guide.'
Comments on map:
Engraved map, surrounded by letterpress, giving lists of coaches and carriers, lists of public offices, inns and hotels, banks, shipping companies and packets, 'Lodges' [trade or masonic], lottery offices, tables of distances to London via Berwick, and via Carlisle and Manchester, and some lists and statistics for Scotland. The fine detailing no doubt reflects its derivation from Kirkwood [Exeter 21679].
Scale:
1:14,080*
Map-maker:
Wm Dassauville, Edinburgh [dr, eng], William Aikman, Printer, Edinburgh [? letterpress, ? pr, ? pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
31.3 x 23.3 [map: plate 32.5 x 24.5, 52.5 x 40.5 including letterpress.
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
Buildings
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, partly
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Proposed buildings without infill.
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
deaf & dumb, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Magdalene Asylum: most of the 'hospitals' are presumably almshouses.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Woodland:
shown, orchards
Known copies of map:
CW31. Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.820 [42081, D.36198, G.8861], NLS Signet.s.90 [1820: CW31a]; Edinburgh Library [1824: in Edinburgh Directory, pb Anderson & Hunter]; RSGS '344' [1824: Robertson & Ballantyne lith: CW31c]; NLS Map.l.43.58 [1820/1969: Edinburgh, Lammerbarn Press].
Industry:
uncertain: Mills.
Gardens:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, libraries/newsrooms, ice-skating
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, Writers to Signet
Waterbodies:
shown
Decorative cartouches:
symbolic/non-realistic: Female with banner with motto and quadruped either side of city arms, below title.
Clubs and societies:
trade and livery company halls
Relief:
slopes shown, cliffs: Extensive.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments: [Nelsons Mont.].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Weigh Ho.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Cemeteries:
shown
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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