Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Leith-1820 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21873

Map Date:

? 1820

Repository reference:

NLS Bartholomew Archive [brown folder, 'Edinburgh Plans'].

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Leith

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT272762

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 2770

Comments on map:

This looks like a proof: title not engraved, scale only in outline. It also looks as though it is at least partly reconstruction, possibly of the 1820s or thereabouts. Most public buildings lettered: no reference to hand. Perhaps a map to be categorised as saying more about its making than about the landscape which it purports to depict.

Scale:

1:2664*

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

34.2 x 25.8

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Water transport infrastructure:

piers, misc: 'Wet Dock (built 1801)' shown by pecked lines only.

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Defence and military:

town walls: [Bastions: eastern one noted as from Capt. G. Collin's, 1681].

Known copies of map:

NLS Bartholomew Archive [brown folder, 'Edinburgh Plans'].

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Blank drape, held aloft by three putti.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Two large pictorial ships in harbour.

Arms and heraldry:

uncertain: Ship: in compass boss.

Cemeteries:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

less built-up parts only