Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ST PATRICK'S CHAPEL AND SCHOOL (Roman Catholic) [Bristo Place] | St Patrick's Chapel Roman Catholic | Catholic directory for Scotland | [Situation] At the South East end of Bristo Place. A moderate sized Chapel well fitted with galleries &c. the front is ornamented with buttresses, and surmounted by a cross. It is seated for 750 of a congregation but it is at present. far too small for the numbers attending a service it is often times crowded to the number 1200. The morning service is free to all there is [sacrament] at noon and evening service but those unable to pay are not excluded. Three clergymen officiates here who has a free house or manse in Brown Square and recieves a fixed stipend of £40 raised from seat rents, underneath the chapel is a school house, about 200 pupils receives in it, the [ordinary] course of an English education £10 is allowed by government for each Governent pupil Teacher there are 6 here. |
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| BRIGHTON STREET | Brighton Street Brighton Street |
Corner Tickets Post Office Directory |
[Situation] Leaving the North side of Lothian Street. A short street of well built houses branching Northward [---] Lothian Street occupied by a [respectable] class of Citizens, it has two unendowed Schools and Religious Sect Known by the name of Morrisonians have a Chapel here. |
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Parish of St Cuthbert
Transcriber's notes
Words lost in fold
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.