Blackford Pond
Blackford Pond
Blackford Pond lies within the city of Edinburgh, at United
Kingdom Grid Reference NT 253709 (55° 55'
31"N, 3° 11' 45"W), at an altitude of c 70 m above UK chart
datum. It is exactly 3 km and almost due south from the Scott Monument
on Princes Street.
The map shows the location of Blackford Pond (left,
unlabelled, near
the upper 'P') in relation to the Kings Buildings campus of the
University of Edinburgh (at the right), where the first research on
Blackford Pond
diatoms was undertaken.
The open areas SW of the Pond (in
the first two fields marked) are occupied by garden allotments, which
are clearly visible in current Google Earth images. These areas,
together with the western part of Blackford Hill and parts of
the surrounding residential areas, must drain into the Pond via
groundwater, but there are no visible inflows.
Blackford Pond is one of a dozen or more small lakes and ponds
within the city of Edinburgh, many of which have been sampled at least
once for
diatoms since 1980. These are indicated on the Google Earth
image of the city of Edinburgh and its immediate surroundings
on the 'Early
history' page. The scale bar inserted on the Google Earth
image is 5
km.
Information about the map: the printed version of this map is
part
of the 1:25000 scale series published by the Ordnance Survey, with grid
squares 1 km × 1 km.
Image produced
from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service.
Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance
Survey of Northern Ireland. Contours are at intervals of 10 m above UK
chart datum (standard 'sea-level').
For further information, go to http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/