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Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1821

CBTM:
21798
Map Date:
1821
Repository reference:
BL 10369.aa.10
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:
'A plan of Edinburgh and its environs from a survey by James Knox. 1821.'
Comments on map:
At end of J. Stark, Picture of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: Fairbairn, etc, 1821. Population table, bottom right. Scales of feet, yards, and English and Scottish chains.
Scale:
1:6000
Map-maker:
James Knox [sv], R. Scott, Edinr. [eng], John Fairbairn, 13 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, Manners & Miller, High St, Edinburgh, John Anderson Junr, 55 North Bridge St, Edinburgh [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
62.3 x 50.3 [maximum: details goes beyond neat line].
Number of parts:
1
Legends:
altitude information
Road names:
generally
Building names:
royal palaces, outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Projected building more lightly hatched; notable outlying houses by pictogram.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, misc: Washg House, named well.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, customs, internal revenue, misc: Tolbooth.
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
deaf & dumb, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Magdalen Asylum.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
exchanges, markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown
Known copies of map:
CW33: CUL Maps.c.138.82.1, Edinburgh Library qYDA 1828.831 [G.8865], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NLS EMS.b.1.49 [1821: in J. Stark, Picture of Edinburgh: CW33a]; RSGS '340(1)' [1821]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.822 [43567, D.36143, D.36165, G.18977], NLS EMS.b.1/50, Newman 530 [1822: in Stark's Picture, ed 3: CW33b]; BL 797.c.20, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.823 [42071] [1823]; BLML Maps 8735 (5), Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.824 [D.36186], NLS EMS.b.1.51 [1824: in Stark's Picture, ed 3: CW33c]; BL 1568/463, CUL Maps.138.82.1, Edinburgh Library [D36187], Y 1828.825 [42654], NLS R.251.i, Signet.s.92 [1825: in Stark's Picture, ed 4: CW33d]; BLML Maps 8735 (7), Edinburgh City Archives D.2.23 [1829: pb J. Anderson]; BL 1578/7342, Edinburgh Library fDA 1828.829 [42080, D.36176], YDA 1828.829 [42080] [1830: Stark, ed 5: CW33e]; BLML Maps c.21.bb.7, BL 10369.aa.13 [1831: pb J. Anderson]; BLML Maps 8735 (8), BL 10369.aaa.23, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.834 [A.11037, D.36216], NLS EMS.b.1.52, RSGS '355A' [1834: pb J. Anderson: CW33e]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.836 [D.36220] ['1836'], YDA 1828.836 [G.23113] ['1837'], Edinburgh Library YDA 1838.836 [20332, 42687] ['1838'], NLS [1834: Stark, ed 6: CW33f]; RGS MR Scotland S.96 [515580] [1834: CW33e/f].
Industry:
distilling
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, libraries/newsrooms
Parkland:
public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Town Wall, chapel ruins.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [In more open parts].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, trade and livery company halls
Relief:
prominent hills
Borders:
distance-graduated type: 0.25-mile divisions.
Monuments:
Monuments
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
'Weights' [weighing machine].
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Cemeteries:
shown
Geodetic notes:
Cutting-lines for latitude and longitude of Edinburgh Observatory.
Stated measuerments:
spot heights
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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