Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Edinburgh: New Town-1819

CBTM:

21990

Map Date:

7.10.1819

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.66.2

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Edinburgh: New Town

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT252730

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Map title:

'Kirkwood's plan & elevation of the new town of Edinburgh.'

Comments on map:

Evidently intended as a pendant to his large map of Edinburgh anmd Leith [Exeter 21679]. Distinctly pictorial.

Scale:

1:1800

Map-maker:

Kirkwood & Sons, Edinburgh [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

55.0 x 67.8, 55.3 x 67.8

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally, house numbers

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial: Very thorough, but makes for awkward choices on street corners, and particularly murderous at acute intersections, e.g. Spring Gardens.

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively, (pictorial)

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

orphanages

Education and academic:

observatories

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

CW30: BLML K.49.66.2, Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.819 [42070, G.8860], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], Edinburgh City Archives 1.c.1, NLS EMS.s.61A, Signet.s.88, Signet.s.89, NASc RHP 1378/1-2, RSGS '337'; NLS [website].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Road transport:

coach office

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: 'Sunburst' effect round title.

Relief:

prominent hills

Monuments:

Monuments, misc: [Nelson's Monument], Triumphal Arch [east end of Waterloo Place].

Post and telegraphs:

post offices

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Pictorial coaches in coach-yard, timber in timber-yard [south of Princes St: site of North British hotel]; some carts in back-yards, etc, elsewhere. Newly laid-out streets indicated; pictorialism suggests authenticity of depiction and entertainment in equal measure.

Cemeteries:

shown: With pictorial gravestones.

Walls, embankments, etc:

Pictorial railings, etc.

Stated measuerments:

spot heights: A few at street intersections: above 'medium Level of the Sea at Leith'.

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