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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SOUTH CASTLE STREET See Name Book Sheet 29
PRINCE'S STREET Princes Street See Name Book1 Sheet 21 [Situation] Leaving the junction of Queensferry St. & Maitland Street. to Waterloo Place
See Name BooK. Sheet 21
WEST PRINCES STREET GARDENS West Princes Street Gardens
West Princes Street Gardens
West Princes Street Gardens
Mr Brown Gardener
Peter Thomson Gardener
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[Situation] On the South side of Princes Street.
A large portion of ornamental ground on the south side of Princes Street. It is well laid out and ornamented with shrubbery, flower plots, &c, and intersected with gravel walks. It belongs, jointly, by lease to the proprietors of the houses in Princes Street these have free access to the grounds but others are allowed access by paying two guineas a year, this realizes a considerable sum which serves to defray the expense of gardeners hire. &c.

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Parish of The City of Edinburgh

South Frederick Street [crossed out]

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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