Edinburghshire [Midlothian]-Portobello-1856 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

21696

Map Date:

1856

Repository reference:

NLS MS 5859 no.124

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 burgh of Portobello by Archibald Sutter, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh. 1856.'

Comments on map:

Style rather similar to Ordnance Survey. Dedication adds that map is 'reduced from the large plan made them under the Police and Improvements Act 13th and 14th Victoria Cap.33 for carrying out the drainage of the Burgh'.

Scale:

1:2400

Map-maker:

Archibald Sutter, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh [sv], Schenck & McFarlane, Lithographers, Edinburgh [lith], Hugh Paton, Her Majesty's Carver and Gilder, Royal Repository of Fine Arts, 10 Princes St, Edinburgh [pb].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

91.0 x 61.0

Number of parts:

1

Legends:

altitude information

Road names:

generally

Building names:

generally

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, steps to buildings

Water transport infrastructure:

harbours, navigation aids

Sanitary and utility information:

misc, gas works, municipal depots, reservoirs: Wells; [[road] Metal Depots].

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

police, town hall/administrative

Education and academic:

schools

Public/administrative boundaries:

borough: [Parliamentary and municipal boundary].

Known copies of map:

Edinburgh Library pl.YDA 1828.856 [C.45899], NLS MS.5859, no.124, Edinburgh Library [copy on aperture cards], NASc RHP 2812, RHP 2813.

Industry:

bricks/tiles, chemicals, furniture/pottery, glass, paper/print, salt, smithing: Fountain of Saltpans.

Railways:

named, earthworks, passenger stations, routes

River and foreshore features:

foreshore, springs: [Mineral Spring].

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

baths/spa

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Antiquities:

'Portobello House' is in gothic.

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [A few noted: one is H. Paton].

Waterbodies:

shown

Relief:

prominent hills

Extractive activity:

quarries/pits

Dedicee of map:

Provosts, magistrates and council.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

hotels or principal inns only

Stated measuerments:

bench marks, spot heights: To O.1 ft: the only bench-mark seems to be that on the church in Melville St. Levels above approximate mean sea level, assumed as 26.2 feet below B.M. on Established Church, Melville St.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1852-3

1:10,560

1894-5

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560