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Very large sections of the Second New Town, built from the early 19th century are also still exactly as built. Townhouses generally occupied the east-west streets, with blocks of flats (called tenements in
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followed the original grid orientation of Craig’s First New Town, with entire streets being built as one construction. Building continued on an extended
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on the South Side of the Old Town. The westernmost blocks of
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Craig had intended that the view along George Street be terminated by two large churches, situated at the outer edge of each square, on axis with George Street. Whilst the western church on
Charlotte Square was built, at St Andrew Square the land behind the proposed church site was owned by
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on Calton Hill were built, also Hillside Crescent and some adjoining streets, but the development further north in the direction of Leith was never completed. On the south side of Calton Hill various monuments were erected as well as the
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north respectively. Heriot Row and Abercromby Place, both one-sided streets at the southern limit of the development, enjoyed open aspects to Queen Street Gardens. The builder for large sections of the Second New Town was
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Thistle Street in 1767. Instead of building as a terrace as envisaged, he built a small courtyard. Doubts were overcome soon enough, and further construction started in the east with St. Andrew Square.
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being the patron saint of lepers and also the name of a slum area or 'rookery' on the edge of the City of London. It was therefore renamed Prince's Street after his eldest son, the
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followed in 1825. The Gayfield Estate (Gayfield Square) extension was designed in 1807 and from around 1813 the New Town gradually replaced and developed the older village of
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1525:"Brutal surgery" - how a crackpot plan to create an 'elevated walkway' almost doomed Princes Street, BP Perry, edinburghlive, 29 April 2019
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lower floors of the wider north-south streets. The larger houses had service mews running behind and parallel to their terraces.
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2003:Clovenstone
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1819:Bruntsfield
1814:Braid Hills
1804:Alnwickhill
1730:Mountcastle
1710:Leith Docks
1690:Easter Road
1685:Duddingston
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2240:Gracemount
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2068:Merchiston
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1962:South West
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1793:South East
1764:Willowbrae
1755:Portobello
1740:Northfield
1725:Meadowbank
1660:Bonnington
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1156:References
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1904:Newington
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1650:Abbeyhill
1627:Edinburgh
422:Palladian
380:the Queen
271:The Mound
152:Edinburgh
96:Reference
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2622:St Kilda
2588:New Town
2576:Scotland
2536:Saltaire
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2093:Roseburn
2088:Polwarth
2083:Parkhead
2033:Firrhill
2008:Colinton
1983:Bankhead
1973:Baberton
1949:West End
1934:The Inch
1919:Sciennes
1909:Old Town
1899:New Town
1874:Liberton
1839:Comiston
1426:18 March
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1998:Chesser
1978:Balerno
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