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Editor's Notes

• #3: County maps – again really at any detail from about 1770. - and in a more uniform style. Often 1 inch to the mile… Land/house owners names regularly appear – After this – move to the Ordnance Survey a which Chris will talk more about later Following on from estate plans,  some surveyors made the logical leap to making county maps, such as this one of Haddingtonshire by 1799 by William Forrest. These were at least partly funded up front by the collections of subscriptions. Remember that still only a tiny part of the population was educated and could read, and probably even fewer could afford to buy the maps.  This is a particularly fine example – and in this extract you can see the quality of the engraving. Remember that these were engraved backwards onto copper plates for engraving! The limited market had to be secured before production. Part of the sales pitch was undoubtedly to promise that the gentleman’s houses would be shown, and they were often issued with an accompanying list of subscribers... There are many examples of proposals for maps which never made it to production for want of the requisite number of subscriptions. It seems probable that the selection of content, or prominence given to particular areas would be determined by who subscribed. The surveyor may have already surveyed their estate in much greater detail and that knowledge could then come through onto the county map. This is a very good example of the type, described by John Thomson 30 years later as: “ The masterly manner in which this map is executed is at once a memorial of industry, skill and enterprise, seldom found in one individual. The noblemen and gentlemen’s domains, the towns and villages, with the roads, the parish boundaries, the sea coast, the woods and rivers, are presented on paper as if reflected in a glass. The woods and pleasure grounds of Tyningham, the seat of the Earl of Haddington, may be cited as a specimen of delineation that may be equalled, but not surpassed .”
• #7: John Adair. East Lothian. 1682
• #15: 'Plan of the Forest of Mamlorn' was surveyed by Colin Foster in 1732. It is drawn in ink with a very faint grey wash to show relief on the hills and pale brown for rivers. It covers an area in Breadalbane, Perthshire, south of Loch Lyon. It related to a land dispute between the Earl of Breadalbane to the south, and the Laird of Culdares to the north. The map was used in an ensuing Court of Session case in 1735 which examined and settled the boundary between two landowners. Ownershuip is shown by being written on the map… Some areas were clearly not for negotiation…
• #16: John Geddy. S. Andre sive Andreapolis Scotiae Universitas Metropolitana. [ca1780]
• #55: Ordnance Survey. 1:2500. Ayrshire sheet LV.4 Girvan Parish. Surveyed 1856.
• #60: Ordnance Survey. 1:10,560. Edinburghshire 7, surveyed 1852-3, published 1854.
• #63: Ordnance Survey. 1:63,360. One inch to the mile Scotland. First edition. Sheet 22 Kilmarnock. Surveyed 1852 – 5.
• #68: It is worth knowing a little bit about scale because the maps you are most likely to use come at a variety of scales. We are all familiar with the modern OS, and many people have the false impression that equivalent mapping will be available as far back as they can trace their family. Unfortunately this is not the case. For Scotland, the OS really came into being in the 1850’s. So for addresses and places after that there is a good chance of being able to locate an exact house or building. As a rough guide, the more populated an area, the more detailed mapping will be available, and in more editions. In some rural areas of Highlands and Perthshire there can be more than 70 years between editions. Just because you can’t find it on the map doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
• #71: caveats :  DATES often they do not represent the landscape at the time of publication but several or even 10s of years before. ACCURACY early maps were not measured... they show things which never happened changes happened which were never recorded PURPOSE they were made to show a particular feature so the rest is distorted may only show things related to that purpose... Often not designed to be used in isolation BIAS ALL MAPS ARE BIASED! Mapmakers choice of what to include (impossible to show everything ... 1:1) Their conscious and unconscious political environment Your reading of it is biased by your own views and knowledge All these caveats still hold true to some extent – it is impossible for a map to represent everything that’s on the ground.
• #79: Approx 2 million items Whole world – not just Scotland Responsibility to collect for the Scottish people …. Website: approx 4,000 maps 6” going up soon work on 1 st ed. Parish ed. 25” just started – scanning Catalogue – individual maps rather than series (ie no OS) ca. 55,000 ASK!