Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1823 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22044

Map Date:

1823

Repository reference:

BLML Maps C.21.e.4

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 the city of Edinburgh including all the latest and intended improvements... 1820. Altered to 1823 by John Wood.'

Comments on map:

Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scottish chains specified, no value. Bottom left, outside frame: '1,2,3,4.' Includes unfulfilled building around Leith Walk and elsewhere, not distinguished from 'real' buildings: this was the scheme put forward by William Playfair in 1818-19, described in A.J. Youngson, The making of Classical Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1966, pp 152-6.

Scale:

1:5328

Map-maker:

John Wood [author], Chas Thomson, High St, Edinburgh [eng], Thomas Brown, Bookseller, No.1 North Bridge, Edinburgh [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

58.0 x 46.5 [map: plate 59.0 x 47.2].

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Turnpikes:

shown

Canals:

shown

Sanitary and utility information:

gas works, reservoirs, misc: Named wells, a few wells in streets.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs, Parliament, internal revenue

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

barracks, castles/forts/batteries

Welfare and charitable:

deaf & dumb, dispensaries, hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, workhouses

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

markets

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Known copies of map:

CW34. NLS Newman 518 [1820: CW34a]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.820 [G.40238], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards] [1823: CW34b]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [no watermark], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.823 [42079, D.36210, G.74875], NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas: CW34b]; NLS [website]; Edinburgh Library xXDA 869 (YDA 1828.823) [P.389] [in Reference Library]; Edinburgh Library, RSGS '349', NLS EU.31.W, NLS [website] [1831: pb Brown & Nelson: CW34c]; BOL G.A.Edinb.a.1 [1823/1962: 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:

distilling, food/drink, rope walk, textiles, misc: Mint.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

riding schools, public halls, theatres, etc

Parkland:

public parks, private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

banks, Writers to Signet

Antiquities:

Town wall.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few outlying].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Title on cloud ground.

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons, trade and livery company halls

Relief:

prominent hills

Monuments:

Monuments

Cemeteries:

shown

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