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The modern city centre is still divided into the seven medieval thoroughfares: the Seagait, Murraygait, Marketgait (now High Street), Nethergait, Overgait, Wellgait and the Cowgait- “Gait” being a Scots word for street- which all remain today (albeit with modified spelling and with both the "Overgate" and "Wellgate" having become enclosed shopping centres.)
The council meets at Dundee City Chambers in City Square and has its mains offices at Dundee House on North Lindsay Street. The civic head and chair of the council is the Lord Provost . The council area is also divided into eighteen community council areas , three of which ( Broughty Ferry , City Centre and Harbour , and West End ) had ...
Map of places in Dundee compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. This List of places in Dundee is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, airport, museum ship, railway, school, theatre, university in the Dundee City council area of Scotland
The DD postcode area, also known as the Dundee postcode area, [2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in eastern Scotland, within nine post towns.These cover Dundee and Angus (including Forfar, Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir and Montrose), plus part of north-east Fife (including Newport-on-Tay and Tayport) and small parts of Perth and Kinross and Aberdeenshire.
Balgay today is primarily a residential area, with a variety of housing, including traditional tenements and newer developments. The neighbourhood is well-connected to Dundee’s city centre and is located close to other notable areas, such as Lochee and Perth Road.
The University of Dundee is located in this area and provides a focal point for some 20,000 students. The neighbourhood is also home to St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Morgan Tower, an 18th-century tenement which is now a pharmacy – and Blackness Library located further west at the Sinderins: the area where Perth Road and the Hawkhill diverge once forming a major entry point to ...
The centre is located where, until the 1960s, there was a street called the 'Overgate'. The street ran from the corner of Reform Street to North Lindsay Street, passing along the north side of St Mary's Parish Church. The Overgate was also once intersected by Tally Street which acted as important connection from Couttie's Wynd to Burial Wynd ...
Previously, the A991 met the A85 at the Riverside roundabout, beside Dundee Railway Station; and just to the east, the A92 at a grade-separated junction at the northern terminus of the Tay Road Bridge. As of 2015, this has been replaced by a grid scheme of streets, with the east and westbound carriageways of the A991 now separate streets.