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Stockbridge is a district of Edinburgh, located north of the city centre, bounded by the New Town and by Comely Bank. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg , meaning a timber bridge. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century.
At that time, the terrace at the western end of the road was the last row of houses in Edinburgh before the village of Blackhall. In 1894 the builder Sir James Steel bought the then empty 33-acre (13.5-hectare) site between Comely Bank and Queensferry Road and developed it as high density but high quality four storey tenements.
Stockbridge library. Stockbridge public library, built in 1898, is one of Edinburgh's 28 freely accessible libraries, [1] located in the Stockbridge area of the city.. The library is currently open six days a week and, in addition to the collection of books, provides "bookbug" sessions for the under-fives, a knitting club and acts as one of the city's business hubs [2]
The colony houses of Edinburgh were built between 1850 and 1910 as homes for artisans and skilled working-class families by philanthropic model dwellings companies. The first development was the Pilrig Model Buildings, near Leith Walk . [ 1 ]
Vienna (Viên in Vietnamese) is the only city whose name in Vietnamese is borrowed from French [citation needed]. Hong Kong and Macau names are borrowed from English by direct transliteration into Hồng Kông and Ma Cao instead of Hương Cảng and Áo Môn in Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation.
Stockbridge public library, Edinburgh; Stockbridge Racecourse, a horse racing venue in Hampshire, England which closed in 1898; Stockbridge School, a "progressive" co-educational boarding school for adolescents near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1948–1976; Stockbridge School of Agriculture, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Edinburgh urban area comprises the adjoined localities: Edinburgh, Musselburgh, and Wallyford. This page lists residential areas of Edinburgh situated in the Edinburgh urban area. The urban area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is located in the City of Edinburgh council area and in East Lothian.
Edinburgh, showing Arthur's Seat, one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the area. Edinburgh was largely under English control from 1291 to 1314 and from 1333 to 1341, during the Wars of Scottish Independence. When the English invaded Scotland in 1298, Edward I of England chose not to enter Edinburgh but passed by it with his army.