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COLLECTION NAME:
Charting The Nation
Record
Work Record ID:
0043924
Shelfmark:
RHP9370
Holding Institution:
National Archives of Scotland
Title:
[?] draught of the house of [Newbigging?] parks yeard dyks ponds
Creator:
Clerk, John, Sir of Penicuik
Creator Role:
Landowner
Date:
1687
Description:
This map is drawn and annotated in brown ink on a sheet which has been marked into a grid. A grey wash has been used only for the main river, the North Esk. It is faded, and the bottom edge is torn, which makes some of the notes written in that area indecipherable. It shows the land area of the Newbigging House holdings, (which became Old Penicuik House, after the building of the Penicuik House designed by the second Baronet, Sir John Clerk 1686-1755, in 1761), with its divisions and acreage. It is probably associated with the two other maps of Penicuik House from 1687, shown in the images 00002331 and 00002576. This would put it in the era of the first Baronet, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, who died in 1722, and whose father had first bought the barony in 1646. The damaged note at the bottom of the sheet, apart from giving a linear scale and a square scale for each grid, seems to have notes on the division of the land in to eight parts, and adds that the whole property is of 144 1/4 acres. On the map itself, the land is indeed marked in eight sections, and each one is numbered, with the acreage for each given, with the exception of No.4, which is not so labelled. Gates to each section seem to be indicated by sketches of gate-pillars. The farm of Ravensneuk, and the small building on a hill to the north of the property, called 'Knights la', are shown in rough sketch, and named. The main waterway is noted as 'North Esk', and various other water features such as the 'upper pond', the East Burn and its unnamed branch, the West Burn, the Hurly Burn and the Curswell (burn), on which is a well, 'scobie well'. The entrance to the house area is shown by a sketch of gate pillars and the note 'Entrance'. Other notes are 'way to pennycook park', 'north park', 'bught know' (with a structure on top) and '[?]sons clough', on which stands an unnamed building.
Work Type:
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement:
50.2 x 64.1cm (1' 7 3/4" x 2' 1 1/4")
Material:
Paper
Technique:
Hand coloured
Subject Place:
Midlothian
Subject Place:
Newbigging House
Subject Place:
North Esk River
Subject Place:
Old Penicuik House
Subject Place:
Penicuik
Subject Place:
Ravens Hall
Subject Place:
Ravensneuk
Subject Place:
Scotland
Rights Statement:
Courtesy of the Keeper of the Records of Scotland
Repro File Type:
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes):
114525638
Repro Title:
[?] draught of the house of [Newbigging?] parks yeard dyks ponds [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number:
0043924c.tif
Repro Old ID Number:
00002330
Repro Capture Date:
24/02/2001 11:23:00

[?] draught of the house of [Newbigging?] parks yeard dyks ponds [1 of 1]

[?] draught of the house of [Newbigging?] parks yeard dyks ponds [1 of 1]