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Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1864

CBTM:
21464
Map Date:
[? 1864]
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 4.e.11
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:
'Edinburgh corrected to the present time by John Dower F.R.G.S.'
Comments on map:
Plate 63 in Cassell's British Atlas..., London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d. [BM RD blue 5 DE 64.] It seems to be a straightforward transcription from the Ordnance Survey.
Scale:
1:10,560
Map-maker:
John Dower [author], Cassell, Petter & Gilpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, E.C. [pb].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
44.2 x 31.5
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
outside built-up area only
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Turnpikes:
shown
Canals:
shown
Sanitary and utility information:
gas works, reservoirs, misc: Named wells.
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively
Public buildings:
town hall/administrative, police
Penal:
jails/reformatories
Defence and military:
barracks, castles/forts/batteries, magazines/arsenals
Welfare and charitable:
hospitals, infirmaries, orphanages, misc: Watson's Institution.
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:
BLML Maps 4.e.11, BOL C15 a.2 [1864-7: P.63 in Cassell's British Atlas..., London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, n.d.]; BLML Maps 43.f.13 [1871, no. 1, pl.107 in Bacon's Illustrated Complete Atlas]; BLML Maps 43.f.11 [1871, no.2, pl.74]; BLML Maps 11.c.30 [1883: George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; RGS 7.E.17 [1884: New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon]; BLML Maps 37.e.31, BOL C15 c.1 [1885: George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 19.c.2, BOL C15 c.3 [1889: Pl.74 in George W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, n.d.]; BLML Maps 33.c.2 [1891: G.W. Bacon (ed), New large scale atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1891]; BLML Maps 33.b.32 [1895: G.W. Bacon (ed), Commercial and library atlas of the British Isles from the Ordnance Survey, London: Bacon, 1895].
Industry:
chemicals, food/drink, glass, rope walk, textiles, timber, abbatoirs, uncertain: Factory.
Railways:
routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations
Gardens:
shown, nurseries: [Extensive nurseries].
Leisure and entertainment:
public halls, theatres, etc, libraries/newsrooms, art galleries
Parkland:
botanic gardens, public parks, private parks and ornamental ground, zoological gardens
Service and professional:
banks
Antiquities:
Town Wall.
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
learned societies, trade and livery company halls, unspecified
Relief:
prominent hills: Mostly on Salisbury Crags.
Monuments:
Monuments, statues
Cemeteries:
shown
Other land-uses & land-cover:
heath/uncultivated
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
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