New Town
THE SKINNY
Completed around 1850, Edinburgh’s New Town is not as new as its name might suggest. Designed as an escape from the medieval streets on the other side of the Nor Loch (now Princes St Gardens, then a pestilent swamp formerly used for witch trials), its Georgian grid plan is both an architectural gem and a physical demonstration of political propaganda, with street names chosen to solidify the Act of Union
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