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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 .
When the £1.3bn Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region Deal [185] was signed in 2018, the region's Gross Value Added (GVA) contribution to the Scottish economy was cited as £33bn, or 33% of the country's output. The City Region Deal funds a range of "Data Driven Innovation" hubs which are using data to innovate in the region, recognising ...
Map of the city, showing the West End - the section in orange inside the red line (the red line demarks the outline of the Edinburgh UNESCO World Heritage Site.) Water of Leith in the West End. The West End is located at the western edge of the centre of Edinburgh, to the west of the Old Town and largely contiguous with the New Town.
The Cowgate (Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about 550 yards (500 m) southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town , which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge .
View of the western end of Royal Terrace, from London Road Gardens, formerly Royal Terrace Gardens. Royal Terrace is a grand street in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the north side of Calton Hill within the New Town and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1995, [1] built on the south side of a setted street, facing the sloping banks of London Road Gardens, formerly Royal ...
Leith Walk is one of the longest streets in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the main road connecting the east end of the city centre to Leith. Forming most of the A900 road, it slopes downwards from Picardy Place at the south-western end of the street to the 'Foot of the Walk' at the north-eastern end, where Great Junction Street , Duke Street ...
Lochrin Basin An 1831 map of the area. Lochrin is a small area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is in the south-west corner of the city centre, to the west of Tollcross, and south of Fountainbridge. [1] Lochrin contains a wide mixture of retail shops, leisure facilities, other businesses and tenement housing. Major new office and ...
[17] [2] By 2013 it had become, according to the Edinburgh Evening News, "the city’s most prestigious shopping district". [18] In October 2012, the City of Edinburgh Council approved a 12-month trial starting in June 2014 that saw George Street featuring a one way system for vehicles, and a dedicated two way bike lane. As part of this the ...