Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1846 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21753

Map Date:

[1846]

Repository reference:

NLS [G.4] L.C.1436

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.'

Comments on map:

Facing title of An account of the North British Railway, second edition, Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1846: the map is distinguished by omitting the railway. Public buildings, etc, numbered, but no reference, either on map or in book. The whole thing looks distinctly opportunistic.

Scale:

1:18,103*

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

17.3 x 14.7

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

partly

Building names:

royal palaces

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Most buildings are emphasised but not described.

Canals:

shown

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries

Education and academic:

further educational/colleges

Known copies of map:

NLS [G.4] L.C.1436 [1846: in North British Railway guide]; NLS 5.5403 [1850.c: in Milne's Three days in Edinburgh, pb W.S. & J.K. Milne].

Railways:

routes, passenger stations

Parkland:

zoological gardens

Relief:

prominent hills

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