Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| TANNER'S CLOSE | Tanner's Close Tanner's Close |
Name above entrance P.O. [Post Office] Directory |
[Situation] Leaving the N. [North] side of West Port, A narrow dirty irregular close leading from the north side of West Port and leads into the north end of Bairds Close in it are the ruins of old houses there are also some delapedated houses tenanted by poor people. In this Hare the partner of the murderer Burke lived |
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| CHALMERS TERRITORIAL FREE CHURCH AND SCHOOL | Chalmers Territorial Free Church and School | Mr Foulis Teacher Mr Robertson Shopkeeper |
[Situation] On the South side of West Port. A small plain edefice partaKing a little of the Gothic style. It is three stories high, the first is a school capable of holding 400 pupils, but at present the average number is only 280 who receives an English education. The middle one is The Church, it is seated for about 600 persons and the third storey is occupied by the person who taKes care of the whole of the apartments. |
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Parish of St Cuthbert
Transcriber's notes
This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county, OS Name Books - Midlothian county - Volume 105 - Parishes of Canongate, St Cuthberts and The City of Edinburgh, OS1/11/105
This volume contains place name information from the parishes of Canongate, St Cuthberts, and The City of Edinburgh.
Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Midlothian, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.