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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.
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]
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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.
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]