New Town, Edinburgh

The New Town is in the central area in Edinburgh, Scotland. Together with the Old Town, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.

New Town, Edinburgh

UNESCO World Heritage Site
File:Edinburgh New Town from Edinburgh Castle.jpg Edinburgh's New Town, viewed from Edinburgh Castle
Location	Edinburgh, Scotland
Part of	Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
Criteria	Cultural: (ii)(iv)
Reference	728
Inscription	1995 (19th Session)
Coordinates	55°57′22.49″N 3°11′56.14″W

It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850. It kept much of its original neoclassical and Georgian period architecture. It is most famous for Princes Street. It faces the Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town.

Edinburgh's New Town, viewed from Edinburgh Castle. Princes Street and the Princes Street Gardens are visible in the foreground.

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Edinburgh's New Town, viewed from Edinburgh Castle. Princes Street and the Princes Street Gardens are visible in the foreground.

New Town, Edinburgh Media

• Edinburgh map.png

  Map of the city, showing the New Town (mid brown), the Old Town, and the West End, with the World Heritage Site indicated by the red line.

• 1768 James Craig Map of New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland (First Plan of New Town) - Geographicus - Edinburgh-craig-1768.jpg

  Plan for the New Town by James Craig (1768)

• The New Town from Edinburgh Castle.JPG

  View of the First New Town from Edinburgh Castle, largely obscured by modern shopping developments

• Thistle Court, Edinburgh.jpg

  Thistle Court, the first building in the New Town

• Charlottesq2.jpg

  Montage image of Robert Adam's north side of Charlotte Square. Bute House, official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, is in the centre.

• Georgian buildings in Princes Street, Edinburgh.jpg

  Surviving Georgian buildings in Princes Street

• Great King Street, Edinburgh New Town.JPG

  Great King Street. Part of the northern extension to the original New Town

• Moray Place, Edinburgh New Town.JPG

  Moray Place. Part of the western extension to the original New Town

• Playfair's plan of the East New Town.jpg

  William Henry Playfair's plan for Edinburgh's Eastern New Town approved at a meeting on 27 September 1819, engraving by Wiliiam Home Lizars. Note that the orientation of the plan is with north on the left side, so Calton Hill is on the right.

• Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.JPG

  The Old Royal High School on Calton Hill

Other websites

• Edinburgh World Heritage/ New Town