Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1823
CBTM:
21679
Map Date:
1823
Repository reference:
NLS Newman 598
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Edinburgh, Leith
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 and its environs...'
Scale:
1:4200
Map-maker:
Robert Kirkwood [sv].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
144 x 159
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
generally, house numbers
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised: Proposed buildings shown without infill.
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown, other: Routes of projected schemes by Rennie and Stevenson.
Water transport infrastructure:
docks, piers, naval dockyards
Sanitary and utility information:
drains, gas works, water mains, misc: Washing House, cisterns; Cleaning Cock on pipe; wells, in streets and outside built-up part; a few drains and water pipes.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
customs, internal revenue
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals: Castle, Fort.
Welfare and charitable:
deaf & dumb, hospitals, infirmaries, mental, orphanages, workhouses, misc: Most of the 'hospitals' are presumably almshouses.
Education and academic:
schools, further educational/colleges, observatories
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Recreation and sports venues:
sports grounds
Woodland:
shown, orchards, misc: Garden and Willow Ground.
Public/administrative boundaries:
uncertain: Numbered divisions in Roman.
Known copies of map:
CW28. BLML K.64.2 11.TAB.END, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.817 [92685, G.8859], YDA 1828.817 [43376], Edinburgh City Archives 9, NLS EMS.b.4.5, Newman 598, EMS.s.264, Signet.s.86, Signet.s.87, Signet.fol.3, NASc RHP 2078, RHP 31324 [CW28a], RSGS ARC.1.5/09 [1817]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.821 [42186], Roll YDA 1828.823 [B.2572] [1823: CW28b]; Edinburgh City Archives SL 145/2/19 [former City Arch.7.b.1] [1823]; NLS [website]; NLS Newman 1093 [1840]; NLS EMS.b.2.144 [1851]; BOL G.A.Edinb.a.1 [1962: Lammerburn Press: western part only]; NLS Map.Fac.s.178 [1817/1997: Caledonian Books]. As New plan of city [CW28b: central part of CW28a]: BLML Maps 8735 (4); NLS EMS.s.662 [1821]; Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NLS Signet.s.91 [1823]; NLS [website]; [1829: Kay's plan: CW28c]; 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, glass, rope walk, textiles, uncertain, misc: Magnesia Work, Mills, [Bleaching Green], Coach Work.
River and foreshore features:
springs: [Copious Spring: near Holyrood].
Gardens:
shown, nurseries
Leisure and entertainment:
riding schools, public halls, theatres, etc
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground
Service and professional:
banks, Writers to Signet
Antiquities:
St Anthony's Chapel; note on Arthur's Seat that the Seaforth Regiment lay there when it revolted, Septr 1778.
Landowners and occupiers:
owners shown incompletely: [Extensive where areas not wholly built over].
Road transport:
cab stands, coach office: [Coach Stand, Coach Yard].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
Freemasons, trade and livery company halls
Relief:
slopes shown, cliffs: Extensive.
Extractive activity:
quarries/pits
Monuments:
Monuments: [Including Proposed Burns Monument].
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Miscellaneous transport-related:
Proposed roads and streets, 'Weights' [weighing machines].
Foot/bridle ways:
shown
Crosses:
cross, named, (symbol): [Cross in High Street: wheel-like].
Cemeteries:
shown: Also a few notable tombs in churchyards.
Geodetic notes:
Sides have cutting lines for latitude and longitude of Edinburgh Observatory (53.57.20 N, 3.11.40 W).
Dedicee of map:
Sir John Marjoribanks of Lees, Bart., M.P., late Lord Provost of the City.
Other land-uses & land-cover:
marsh/wetland
Stated measuerments:
soundings, spot heights, other: Heights to 1 ft; indications at 1-furlong intervals along some main roads; soundings in Lochend and Duddingston lochs in feet and inches.
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete
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
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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