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Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the Nor Loch and building of the New Town , beginning in the 1760s.
Description: Scotland's capital city has a lot of "Green space" - parks, recreation areas etc, including right in the centre of the city. Princes Street Gardens run 0.6 Mile (1 Km) along the length of Princes Street, with shops, hotels etc on one side and the spectacular castle and "Old Town" on the other.
Queensferry Crossing road bridge Edinburgh Castle Fountain at Holyrood Palace The National Monument of Scotland (right) and Nelson Monument (left) The Dean Gallery, part of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Holyrood Palace, the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. Bridges in Edinburgh. Dean Bridge; Forth Road Bridge
The Swedish Runestone, designated U 1173 in the Rundata catalogue, is an 11th-century [1] Swedish Viking Age runestone which was located in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, below Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, within a fenced enclosure adjacent to Ramsay Garden. [2]
Its best known street is Princes Street, facing Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression of the former Nor Loch. Together with the West End, the New Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Old Town in 1995. The area is also famed for the New Town Gardens, a heritage designation since March 2001. [1]
The Mound is an artificial slope and road in central Edinburgh, Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's New and Old Towns.It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's Princes Street Gardens.
St Cuthbert's, situated at the west end of Princes Street Gardens in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle and St Giles' can lay claim to being the oldest Christian sites in the city, [144] though the present St Cuthbert's, designed by Hippolyte Blanc, was dedicated in 1894. [145]
For the history and development of the rest of New Town see: New Town, Edinburgh. In 1806, Shandwick Place was developed as a western extension of New Town's Princes Street, to the south of the Easter Coates House estate, by John Cockburn Ross, of Shandwick in Easter Ross, who commissioned architect James Tait to come up with a plan for the west of New Town.