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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: For people who like maps http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: For people who like maps en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:03:26 +0000 hunnymonster on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244878 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:47:03 +0000 hunnymonster 244878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "There is a little bit of Scotland south of the Tweed near Coldstream and an even smaller bit of England west of the Tweed near Horncliffe but neither seem inhabited." The little bit of Scotland on the south Bank of the Tweed is called the Ba' Green - historically there was a mob football game between Coldstream & Carham Parish and the winners kept the Ba' Green until the next year's game... Obviously they quit while it was in Scottish possession. By Horncliffe, that's the danger of setting a boundary on the median point of a river... It's meandered a bit (mostly depositing on the Scottish side and scouring the English) neddie on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244864 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:42:10 +0000 neddie 244864@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ More Strava art: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39287266" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39287266</a> chdot on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244019 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:54:53 +0000 chdot 244019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_a/0_around_edinburgh_-_holyrood_park_sheep_wullie_croal.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_a/0_around_edinburgh_-_holyrood_park_sheep_wullie_croal.htm</a> gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244016 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:28:31 +0000 gembo 244016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ There are moo cows grazing on Arthur's seat again now. I waited on the innocent one morning about a month back for the friends of the Arthur's seat moo cows to get their act together. All friendly nods and how de doos crowriver on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244015 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:04:22 +0000 crowriver 244015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Ah, so it was the game they were trying to protect from the peasants. I do recall sheep being grazed on Arthur's Seat/Salisbury Crags in the 1970s. I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244013 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:01:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 244013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @crowriver Cattle were the main beasts in Scotland at the time of the Blaeu atlas and the whole of Scotland was a major green space. There are hardly any roads outside of Midlothian. Sheep came after the clearances, both lowland and highland. Arthur's Seat was a royal hunting ground then a royal park with a wall. Craigmillar park also walled by the nobs that owned it. gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244012 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:57:44 +0000 gembo 244012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Which map crowriver, the earlier Dutch one predates enclosure but not sure how you can tell whether we all ran free without fences back then or whether we were shot as poachers if the laird caught us on his land? crowriver on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244011 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:50:09 +0000 crowriver 244011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I note with interest all the major green spaces are fenced off. To keep hoi polloi out, or sheep in? Or both? gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244010 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:46:05 +0000 gembo 244010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @iwrats, some claim been here since Roman days but the various settlements like butelands and listonshiels are listed and various places beginning with B that are way off Lookimg like balerno. Butelands has a good degree of history including I think Knights Templar. The village of Balerno becomes present when the technology to harness the power of the river becomes available. Malleny house is maybe Jacobean and most certainly inhabited by one woman with two shop mobility scooters, one for roads and one off road meaning she can drive straight at you on the lymphoy or the Lang Whang. She will also run straight at you in the aisles of Scotmid. However she does not have the force nor speed of a BT Openreach Van and driver. I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244007 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:21:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 244007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @gembo A baffling oversight. Fear not. Eagle-eyed General Roy <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=55.8868&lon=-3.3341&layers=4&b=1">spotted it one hundred years later</a>, although he calls it 'Moleaney', now Malleny? gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244005 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:12:24 +0000 gembo 244005@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @Iwrats - no Balerno shocker jonty on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217&page=2#post-244003 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 18:53:45 +0000 jonty 244003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ My favourite NLS Edinburgh "map" is this one. The detail is pretty incredible. <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/74401135" rel="nofollow">http://maps.nls.uk/view/74401135</a> acsimpson on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-244000 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 18:06:07 +0000 acsimpson 244000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Newbridge has moved considerable further from town in the last 4 centuries. Imagine what the people of Roseburn would do should there be a suggestion for a new bridge there now. I can see why the people of Weirdy decided to change to spelling it with an a though. Frenchy on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243996 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 17:09:06 +0000 Frenchy 243996@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "Long Gilmoortoun" No sign of a Short Gilmerton. I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243995 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 17:06:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 243995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ To be fair the map is Dutch and pre-GPS, pre-theodolite even. I say Dutch, it pre-dates the Kingdom of Holland too. Murun Buchstansangur on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243994 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:59:08 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 243994@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ & Gorgy seems to have moved downstream & east in the interim Murun Buchstansangur on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243993 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:57:02 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 243993@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ The Kaiser would have felt right at home in Ober Kramont I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243991 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:32:51 +0000 I were right about that saddle 243991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I like the way Edenburgh intra muros is depicted as a gurnard. <img src="https://www.talleys.co.nz/assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImage550550-Gurnard1.jpg"> Arellcat on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243988 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:01:42 +0000 Arellcat 243988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Speaking of such things, I like the huge sperm whale between Nether Gogar and Korstor C(astle). cb on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243986 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:16:07 +0000 cb 243986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "the giant testicle to the west is worrying" Possibly connected to the alarming protrusion just west of Lyth. I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243985 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:58:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 243985@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I like Inner Lythe (Inverleith of course!), though the giant testicle to the west is worrying. gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243983 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:49:23 +0000 gembo 243983@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @Ed1 the chain bridge is getting £5million makeover cb on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243980 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:27:41 +0000 cb 243980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I quite like Nether Kramont and Ober Kramont instead of Cramond and Barnton. Mind you, at least they're only using one M unlike pretty much everyone else, ever. I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243974 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:48:56 +0000 I were right about that saddle 243974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ There's a 'Weirdy' next to Grantoun. <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=6&lat=3704&lon=3367&layers=BT" rel="nofollow">http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=6&lat=3704&lon=3367&layers=BT</a> Ed1 on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243972 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:37:28 +0000 Ed1 243972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ It was the chainbridge at Honey Farm that newsnight filmed an episode with kirsty ward, and Nicola Sturgeon before the referendum, most people voted yes so received no newspaper coverage or reporting after it aired live. We had to walk over the bridge and vote the BBC had tried to choose a balance of undecided voters we got phoned before to confirm undecided I were right about that saddle on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243969 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:32:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 243969@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Lyth, Pilrig, Restalrigh, Brunstoun, Nyddry...all there on Open Streets 1654 stylee; <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=5&lat=3368&lon=3806&layers=BT" rel="nofollow">http://maps.nls.uk/view/00000395#zoom=5&lat=3368&lon=3806&layers=BT</a> neddie on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-243963 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:54:39 +0000 neddie 243963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ A map from CEC planning dept. showing local development plans, etc: <a href="https://edinburghcouncil.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=d1e3d872be424df5b89469de72bb03bd" rel="nofollow">https://edinburghcouncil.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=d1e3d872be424df5b89469de72bb03bd</a> More info: <a href="https://planningedinburgh.com/2017/03/02/maps-again/" rel="nofollow">https://planningedinburgh.com/2017/03/02/maps-again/</a> paddyirish on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-238620 Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:05:02 +0000 paddyirish 238620@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <a href="https://www.strava.com/activities/782058105?utm_source=strava&utm_medium=mktgemail&utm_campaign=2016_12_08_December_Newsletter_Ride">Strava Art from San Francisco</a> gembo on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-237943 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:26:57 +0000 gembo 237943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Stretching it a bit but the chain bridge honey farm at horncliffe on the tweed near Berwick is in England but cross the bridge, you can only do so on foot or bike, or if local ignoring risk and you get to a house in Scotland, but you hav to walk a bit. The bee farm famous for having a cafe inside a double decker bus. acsimpson on "For people who like maps" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17217#post-237940 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:35:39 +0000 acsimpson 237940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I wonder how Upsettington (just north of there) got it's name.