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  2. Old Town, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    Map of the city centre, showing the Old Town (dark brown), New Town (mid brown), and the West End (orange), with the World Heritage Site indicated by the red line Cockburn Street in Edinburgh. The Old Town (Scots: Auld Toun) is the name popularly given to the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.

  3. Royal Mile - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Mile (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mìle Rìoghail; Scots: Ryal Mile) [1] is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W. M. Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), describing the city "with its Castle and Palace and the ...

  4. List of closes on the Royal Mile - Wikipedia

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    The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and the small alleyways and courtyards that led off it to the north and south. These were usually named after a memorable occupant of one of the apartments reached by the common entrance, or a trade plied by one or more residents.

  5. New Town, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    1995 (19th Session) New Town, Edinburgh (Edinburgh) The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850, and retains much of its original neo-classical and Georgian period architecture. Its best known street is Princes Street, facing Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across ...

  6. List of former Edinburgh street names - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Street - demolished in the early 60s. Was once the steepest street in Edinburgh. Brown Square - demolished for George IV Bridge, Chambers Street and Museum of Scotland. Canal Street - demolished to create Waverley Station. Cannon Street - demolished to create Leith Fort development in 1950s. Craigside Place - demolished to build Dumbiedykes.

  7. The Canongate - Wikipedia

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    The Canongate is a street and associated district in central Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. The street forms the main eastern length of the Royal Mile while the district is the main eastern section of Edinburgh's Old Town. David I of Scotland, by the Great Charter of Holyrood Abbey c. 1143, authorised the Abbey to found a burgh ...

  8. West End, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    55°56′53″N 3°12′52″W  /  55.94814°N 3.21453°W  / 55.94814; -3.21453. The West End is an affluent district of Edinburgh, Scotland, which along with the rest of the New Town and Old Town forms central Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1] The area boasts several of the city's hotels, restaurants ...

  9. West Port, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    Grassmarket. The West Port is a street in Edinburgh's Old Town, just south of Edinburgh Castle. It runs from Main Point (the junction of Bread Street, Lauriston Street, East Fountainbridge and High Riggs) to the southwest corner of the Grassmarket. The street takes its name from the westernmost of the "ports" or gates in the Flodden Wall.