Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh-1892
CBTM:
21223
Map Date:
2.1892
Repository reference:
BLML Maps 145.b.6(1)
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Edinburgh
Map type:
Insurance
Extent of cover:
fragmentary
National grid reference:
NT257736
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
'Insurance plan of Edinburgh.'
Comments on map:
Note of population, water supply and fire-fighting equipment on graphic index sheet at 1:4800, which covers a larger area than the detailed plans. Letterpress index to streets and 'specials', i.e. commercial premises, public buildings, etc. Surveyed February 1892: surveyed and extended April 1906 to cover a considerable part of the Old Town.
Scale:
1:480
Map-maker:
Charles E. Goad, Civil Engineer, 53 New Broad St, London, E.C. [author].
Production mode:
lithographed
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
53 x 62 [standard sheet size: x 10+11].
Number of parts:
21
Colouring:
Buildings, water: Hand-coloured.
Road names:
generally
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Sanitary and utility information:
utilities
Places of Worship:
shown comprehensively: Heights to eaves and of towers, where applicable.
Public buildings:
shown
Welfare and charitable:
shown
Education and academic:
schools
Markets and exchanges:
markets
Known copies of map:
BLML Maps 145.b.6(1), NLS EMS.b.4.9(3) [1892]; NASc RHP 23979 [1892-1960].
Industry:
shown
Leisure and entertainment:
shown
Service and professional:
shown
Landowners and occupiers:
industrial owners: [Occupiers of larger retail and industrial premises].
Waterbodies:
shown
Clubs and societies:
shown
Vignettes, illustrations, etc:
On sheet 8: section through Theatre Royal.
Cemeteries:
shown
Residual industrial land-use and waste:
shown
Retail activity:
shown generally
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
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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