Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1873 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21766

Map Date:

? 1873

Repository reference:

NLS A.118.g

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 Edinburgh & Leith.'

Comments on map:

Entry from version facing title of The tourist's picturesque guide to Edinburgh, Edinburgh: Menzies, London: Graphotyping Company, n.d.: dated 1873 by NLS.

Scale:

1:18,103

Map-maker:

J. Bartholomew, Edinr. [author, pr], Graphotyping Co., London [pb].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

22.7 x 35.8

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

water

Road names:

generally

Building names:

outside built-up area only

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted., public buildings emphasised

Canals:

shown

Water transport infrastructure:

docks, piers

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, rifle ranges: [Castle, Fort, rifle ranges at Hunters Bog].

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals, infirmaries, mental

Education and academic:

schools, further educational/colleges, observatories

Markets and exchanges:

exchanges, markets

Recreation and sports venues:

gymnasia: [Royal Gymnasium].

Known copies of map:

Edinburgh Library YDA 1832.871 (YDA 1828.871) [G.9380] [1871: in Middlemass & Co's Guide to Edinburgh]; NLS A.118.g [1873]; BL 010347.de.59 [1882: in Ward Lock guide; BLML Maps Gaz. 411, RGS MR Gazetteers [515588] [1883: smaller version, without building-hatching, of the 1895 Atlas map, in Francis H. Groome (Ed), Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland, Edinburgh, London &c: Jack, 1883, Vol II, f.p.468]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.884 [G.24391] [1884: 'Pocket plan of Edinburgh & suburbs', 20.5 x 18.4 ins]; BOL C18:45 Edinburgh (123) [1886: extract used as promotional map for routes to exhibition for Wilson, Kerr & Co., wholesale provision merchants]; NLS K.214.b.1(2) [BL 7958.f.5: destroyed WWII] [1886: in Official guide to Exhibition of Industry, Science & Art]; Edinburgh Library YDA 1832.893 (YDA 1828.893) [1893.c: in Dobson's Handy guide to Edinburgh]; BLML Maps 8735 (14), CUL Maps 138.89.4, NLS Maps.s.19.16 [1893: pocket plan]; BL 10028.ccc.15 [1894: in Murray [pb], Handbook to Scotland, f.p. 37]; BL Maps 31.c. 3, BOL C18 b.2, RGS MR 3.H.3 [515590] [1895: pl LV of Atlas of Scotland]; [in Atlas of Scotland]; BLML Maps 1.a.70, BOL C18:45 Edinburgh (1) [1896: pocket plan]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.897 [G.37257] [1897: pocket plan]; BL 10028.ccc.24 [1898 in Murray [pb], Handbook to Scotland, f.p. 37]; Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.900 [B.24914, G.30413] [1900.c: : pocket plan]; NLS EMS.s.541 [1900: 61.7 x 48.0]; NLS Map.s.184.35 [1905: pocket plan]; PC [1917: pocket plan]; BLML Maps 8735 (22) [1928: pocket plan].

Industry:

uncertain, misc: Mills, Rubber Works.

Railways:

routes, goods depots, named, passenger stations

Leisure and entertainment:

public halls, theatres, etc, art galleries

Parkland:

botanic gardens, public parks

Service and professional:

banks

Antiquities:

Chapel ruins.

Waterbodies:

shown

Clubs and societies:

Freemasons, learned societies, trade and livery company halls

Relief:

cliffs

Monuments:

Monuments, statues

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Cemeteries:

shown

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Miscellaneous religious group:

Convent.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: Arthurs Seat.

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