OS1/11/92/6

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STEAD'S PLACE Stead's Place
Stead's Place
Stead's Place
Corner Ticket
George Denholm
P.O. [Post Office] Directory
[Situation] On the West side of Leith Walk opposite Ronaldson's Building
A row of buildings on the side of Leith Walk terminating at Allison's Place, it also applies to a row of dwelling [houses] running in a Westerly direction from Leith Walk.
LEITH WALK Leith Walk Corner Ticket
Name on Lamp Pts. [Posts]
William Denholm
[Situation] Extending in a N.E. [North Easterly] direction from Catherine St. Edinb [Edinburgh] to Kirkgate Junction St. & Constitution St. Leith
This name applies to the l[ane] & Street commencing at Cath[erine] St. and running to Great Junction St. and Kirkgate Leith, at present it is not built up on each side, it [is] the connecting thoroughfar[e] of Edinburgh & Leith and contains many good shops & dwelling houses and one or [two] manufactories.

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Parish of St. Cuthbert's

Transcriber's notes

Stead's Place & Leith Walk - words lost in fold


This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 21
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1:1056

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