Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY | Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway | See Name BooK Sheet. 21 | [Situation] From the General Station at Waverley Bridge, then to Glasgow Descriptive RemarKs in Name BooK. Sheet 21 |
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| SITE OF OLD WEIGH HOUSE [Lawn Market] | Site of Old Weigh House Site of Old Weigh House |
Mr Morrison Mr Thomson |
[Situation] In the Lawn Market. The site of this building was pointed out by the given authorites at having stood about the centre of the junction of Lawn MarKet with the Castle Hill and the West Bow. Mr Robert Chambers says that it was a plain old building used for the public weighing of goods, under the direction of the magistrates and was erected in the early part of the seventeenth century. It was adorned with a steeple which was taken down about the year 1672. The whole edifice, which had been long considered as an encumberance to the street and was demolished in order to make way for the royal procession to The Castle which took place on the 22 August 1822. |
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Parish of The City of Edinburgh
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.