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Edinburgh New Town Flashcards

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Why built?

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  • Overcrowding
  • Professional and Merchant classes moving to London
  • Wanted to compete with other capitals like Paris and London
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North Bridge built?

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1772

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Design competition

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  • 1766
  • Won by James Craig
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Street Names - Main

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  • Princes Street - after the Prince of Wales
  • George Street - after King G III
  • Queen Street - after his wife
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Mews Names

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  • Rose Street
  • Thistle Street
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Minor street

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  • Frederick St (after King’s second son)
  • Hanover St
  • Castle St
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Square names

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  • St Andrews Square
  • St George’s Square
  • Charlotte Square (after Queen and her daughter)
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Plan for both ends of George St

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Large churches

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First buildings

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  • 1767 (St Andrews Square)
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Last buildings

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1820 (Charlotte Square)

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Charlotte Square

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Finished 1820
National Archives
Bute House

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St Andrews Square

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  • Royal Bank of Scotland (Dundas House, former private mansion)
  • Financial and insurance businesses
  • Henry Dundas (Melville Monument)
  • David Hume once lived here
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Jenners

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  • Founded 1838
  • Closed and undergoing renovation to a hotel
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Calton Hill

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  • National Monument
  • Nelson Monument
  • City Observatory
  • Douglas Stewart Monument
  • Robert Burns Monument
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National Monument

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  • Athens of the North
  • Dedicated to Scottish soldiers who died in Napoleonic Wars
  • Intended to be a reproduction of Parthenon
  • Never completed
  • 1822
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Observatory House

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  • 1776
  • Astronomical Research

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