Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Portobello-1824
CBTM:
22068
Map Date:
1824
Repository reference:
BLML Maps C.21.e.4
Historic county:
Edinburghshire [Midlothian]
Town name:
Portobello
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
NT305739
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
NT 2770
Map title:
'Plan of the town of Portobello from actual survey by J. Wood 1824'.
Comments on map:
Included in John Wood's town atlas. Scale of 74-foot chains.
Scale:
1:2664
Map-maker:
J. Wood, Canaan [sv, pb], T. Clerk [eng], Wm Swinton, 60 Princes St & J. Ritchie, High St, Edinr. [pb].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
58.3 x 48.7 [map: plate 61.5 x 51.5].
Number of parts:
1
Road names:
generally
Building names:
important buildings only
Buildings:
shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings: Steps to mansions.
Water transport infrastructure:
harbours
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Education and academic:
schools
Woodland:
scattered tree cover, orchards: Orchards inferred from tree-patterns.
Known copies of map:
Edinburgh Library fYDA 1828.824 [C.67937], fYDA 1828.824 [G.74836, K.96002], xXDA 1868 (YDA 1828.826) [P.389] (in Scottish Library), Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NLS MS.5859.no.123, NLS [website] [1824]; BLML Maps C.21.e.4 [watermaked Smith & Allnutt 1828], CUL Atlas.2.81.11, NLS EU.31.W [in 1828 Atlas], Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards]; NLS [website] [1828].
Industry:
bricks/tiles, oil/soap etc, textiles, furniture/pottery, uncertain, misc: Works, White Lead Works.
River and foreshore features:
foreshore
Leisure and entertainment:
baths/spa
Parkland:
private parks and ornamental ground
Antiquities:
'Place where Geo.4 Mounted his horse Augt. 1822'.
Landowners and occupiers:
fragmentary owners: [Outlying only].
Waterbodies:
shown
Post and telegraphs:
post offices
Towers:
tower
Miscellaneous street furniture:
2 Mile Stone.
Tenement boundaries group:
incomplete: Inconsistent.
Ordnance Survey's
1852-3
1:10,560
1894-5
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
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