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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
QUEEN STREET GARDENS Queen Street Gardens
Queen Street Gardens
Inscription on lamp post
Map of City
[Situation] Along the north side of Queen Street.
This name applies to three gardens or enclosed areas of ornamental ground planted with trees & shrubs & tastefully laid out with walks flower plots & grass plots &c.
HOWE STREET Howe Street
Howe Street
Corner TicKet
Inscripn. [Inscription] on lamp posts
[Situation] From Heriot Row to Vincent Street.
A wide Street the continuation Southward of St Vincent street from the west end of Great King Street to Heriot Row &, Queen Street Gardens. It is clean, well paved, &c. The houses are from four to 5 stories high & of good construction [several] of the low storey are occupied with shops chiefly Grocers, BaKers & [provision] dealers The upper apartments are occupied by respectable famillies (See Name Book Sheet 20 forms 136)

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Parish of St. Cuthberts

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Words lost in fold

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1851 - Sheet 29
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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