Edinburgh New Town Flashcards
(16 cards)
Why built?
- Overcrowding
- Professional and Merchant classes moving to London
- Wanted to compete with other capitals like Paris and London
North Bridge built?
1772
Design competition
- 1766
- Won by James Craig
Street Names - Main
- Princes Street - after the Prince of Wales
- George Street - after King G III
- Queen Street - after his wife
Mews Names
- Rose Street
- Thistle Street
Minor street
- Frederick St (after King’s second son)
- Hanover St
- Castle St
Square names
- St Andrews Square
- St George’s Square
- Charlotte Square (after Queen and her daughter)
Plan for both ends of George St
Large churches
First buildings
- 1767 (St Andrews Square)
Last buildings
1820 (Charlotte Square)
Charlotte Square
Finished 1820
National Archives
Bute House
St Andrews Square
- Royal Bank of Scotland (Dundas House, former private mansion)
- Financial and insurance businesses
- Henry Dundas (Melville Monument)
- David Hume once lived here
Jenners
- Founded 1838
- Closed and undergoing renovation to a hotel
Calton Hill
- National Monument
- Nelson Monument
- City Observatory
- Douglas Stewart Monument
- Robert Burns Monument
National Monument
- Athens of the North
- Dedicated to Scottish soldiers who died in Napoleonic Wars
- Intended to be a reproduction of Parthenon
- Never completed
- 1822
Observatory House
- 1776
- Astronomical Research