Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Musselburgh-1778 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21737

Map Date:

1778

Repository reference:

NASc RHP 24995, NLS EMS.p.30

Historic county:

Edinburghshire [Midlothian]

Town name:

Musselburgh

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

NT344725

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

NT 3368

Map title:

'Plan of the fields of Pinkie & Inveresk 1778.'

Comments on map:

Recorded from NLS photocopy.

Scale:

1:7104

Map-maker:

Thos Johnson [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

57 x 71

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

uncertain: Evidently estate.

Buildings:

noticeably generalised

Mills:

watermills

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only: Unnamed.

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

NLS EMS.p.30 [photo].

Gardens:

shown: [More in Fisherow than Musselburgh].

Foot/bridle ways:

shown

Tenement boundaries group:

incomplete: More in Fisherow than Musselburgh, but still very incomplete-looking.

Ordnance Survey's

1852

1:1056

1:10,560

1893

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560