A Walk through Edinburgh's New Town

Edinburgh's historic New Town is one of the finest surviving examples of Georgian town planning. Even before work on the first phase of the New Town was completed, visitors were recording their very favourable impressions. An English tourist, Robert Heron, writing at the end of the 1790s, wrote that: "With regard to the buildings that have of late arisen in this City (Edinburgh) with such incredible rapidity, we may venture to say, that, in regularity and magnificence, they are scarcely equ...