Edinburgh, West Preston Street, General

General View

Site Name Edinburgh, West Preston Street, General

Classification General View

Alternative Name(s) Preston Street; Mounthooly Loan; Gibbet Loan

Canmore ID 123985

Site Number NT27SE 1973

NGR NT 26326 72406

NGR Description Centred NT 2632 7240

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital Images

DP 140195

Plan of the area around Causewayside including Duncan Street, Upper Gray Street, Grange Road, Salisbury Place, Sciennes, Sciennes Place, West Preston Street, Newington Road, Summer Hall and part of the Meadows. Insc. 'Plan of the Causewayside and its immediate neighbourhood shewing the slaughter houses at Grange Court. March 1850. Alfred Lancefield Surveyor. 11 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh.' Insc. on the back of the drawing 'Plan of the Slaughter houses at the Causewayside Edinburgh by A Lancefield. Drawer 28 No. 28.'

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General Collection

3/1850

DP 088651

Card folder containing photographs of Clerk Street, Hope Park Terrace, South Clerk Street and West Preston Street. Front cover has pencil notes describing the photographs inside. Edinburgh Photographic Society Survey of Edinburgh District, Ward XIV George Square.

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Records of Edinburgh Photographic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland

1914

DP 057374

Plan of Mr McNab's garden on corner of Gibbet Loan and Summerhall, showing arbours, hothouse, seat, dial and width of road. Titled: 'PLAN of MR McNAB'S GARDEN &c Copied from William Bell's Plan done 12th July 1787'. Insc: 'N.B. The Width of the Road taken by J. Bell Surveyor'.

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Records of George Heriot's Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland

12/7/1787

SC 1241949

EPS/40/5 Photograph of West Preston Street, general view of North side from South Clerk Street. Edinburgh Photographic Society Survey of Edinburgh and District, Ward XIV George Square.

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Records of Edinburgh Photographic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland

1914

SC 1677894

Aerial view including Causewayside, Minto Street, South Clerk Street, Salisbury Crags, Salisbury Place, West Preston Street seen from the South South West.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1993

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Administrative Areas

Council Edinburgh, City Of
Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
Former Region Lothian
Former District City Of Edinburgh
Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27SE 1973 centred 2632 7240

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