Cockburn Street is a street in Edinburgh's Old Town, created as a serpentine link from the High Street to Waverley Station in 1856. Originally named Lord...
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brother, John Cockburn FRSE (died 1862), was a wine merchant and founder of Cockburn's of Leith. Cockburn contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review. In...
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Castle and Walter Scott's Abbotsford, while in urban settings Cockburn Street, Edinburgh was built wholly in baronial style. Baronial style buildings were...
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245-249 High Street (even numbers), 253 High Street, 323 High Street, 329 High Street, 2 Warriston's Close and 14 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh (Category A...
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the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. The area has preserved much of its medieval street plan and many Reformation-era buildings. Together...
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245-249 High Street (even numbers), 253 High Street, 323 High Street, 329 High Street, 2 Warriston's Close and 14 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh (LB17597)"...
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Royal Mile (redirect from High Street, Edinburgh)
Scots: Ryal Mile) is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used...
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List of closes on the Royal Mile (redirect from Closes of Edinburgh)
The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and the small alleyways and courtyards that...
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Princes Street (Scottish Gaelic: Sràid nam Prionnsan) is one of the major thoroughfares in central Edinburgh, Scotland and the main shopping street in the...
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the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary at 1 Drummond Street in January 1860. In 1862 it moved to premises in Cockburn Street. At the west end of the street was...
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grandparents were Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and his wife Elizabeth Macdowall, while his maternal grandparents were Robert Pitcairn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 17...
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Waverley Bridge (category Streets in Edinburgh)
Waverley Bridge is a road bridge in Edinburgh linking Market Street and Cockburn Street in the Old Town with Princes Street in the New Town. The bridge forms...
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City Observatory (redirect from City Observatory, Edinburgh)
Architecture. In 2014, Collective relocated from their gallery in Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, opened an exhibition in the City Dome and received an award of...
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that his son Alexander Cockburn, a student, was in good health. John Cockburn had a stroke on the High Street of Edinburgh on 22 November 1583 and died...
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The Cockburn Association (Edinburgh's Civic Trust) is one of the world's oldest architectural conservation and urban planning monitoring organisations...
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Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, is located off the High Street, part of the Royal Mile. The square is not a formal square, but consists of two...
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Advocates Close (category Streets in Edinburgh)
accessible to disabled persons. The close leads from Market Street at the foot of Cockburn Street to the Royal Mile, exiting opposite St Giles Cathedral close...
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Charles Kinnear (category Architects from Edinburgh)
for their development of the Scots Baronial style, typified by Cockburn Street in Edinburgh, which evokes a highly medieval atmosphere. Kinnear was also...
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George Street is the central thoroughfare of the First New Town of Edinburgh, planned in the 18th century by James Craig. The street takes its name from...
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Cowgate (redirect from Edinburgh Cowgate fire)
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...
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neo-classical and Georgian period architecture. Its best known street is Princes Street, facing Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression...
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Fleshmarket Close (category Novels set in Edinburgh)
and is named after a real close in Edinburgh between the High Street and Market Street, crossing Cockburn Street. It is the fifteenth of the Inspector...
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Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn (8 October 1712 – 22 November 1794) was a Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a...
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Dean Cemetery (redirect from Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh)
architect (1830–1894) of the firm Peddie & Kinnear, creators of Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, etc. (N) All four Barons Kinross, spanning almost two centuries...
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Walls of Edinburgh. The Cockburn Association. p. 1. ISBN 0950515914. Pococke, Richard (1887). Tours in Scotland, 1747, 1750, 1760. Edinburgh University...
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Chambers Street is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the southern extremity of the Old Town. The street is named after William Chambers of Glenormiston...
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Queen Street is the northernmost east-west street in Edinburgh's First New Town. It begins in the east, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It links...
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John Armstrong (architect) (category Architects from Edinburgh)
51 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh. His home address is then given as 2 South Clerk Street. In 1882 he took up very prestigious offices at 2 Queen Street in...
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Rose Street is a street in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is a narrow street running parallel between Princes Street and George Street. Today...
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Southern Light Opera Company (category Theatre in Edinburgh)
1897, in the Union Hotel, Cockburn street, Edinburgh. The first five shows were performed in the Operetta House in Chambers Street. The next production marked...
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