My favourite NLS Edinburgh "map" is this one. The detail is pretty incredible.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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@Iwrats - no Balerno shocker
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@gembo
A baffling oversight. Fear not. Eagle-eyed General Roy spotted it one hundred years later, although he calls it 'Moleaney', now Malleny?
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@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.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I note with interest all the major green spaces are fenced off. To keep hoi polloi out, or sheep in? Or both?
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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?
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@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.
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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.
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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
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More Strava art:
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"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)
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