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Parish of the City of Edinburgh
The following notice is from Arnot's History of Edinburgh Page 261
"The City, (that is, the ancient royalty independent of the suburbs) was afterwards A.D. 1625 formally
divided into parishes but these were reduced to 4 in number and their different limits described
The churches, in the respective parishes being insufficient to accommodate the citizens new churches
were built and the town divided into Six parishes A.D. 1641 but the whole ancient royalty is now considered
as one district called the parish of St. Giles; and upon the enlargement of the City the extended royalty
was annexed to the same parish,"
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.