Everything about Princes Street Gardens totally explained
Princes Street Gardens is a public park in the centre of
Edinburgh,
Scotland, in the shadow of
Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the
Nor Loch and the creation of the
New Town. The Nor Loch was a large
loch in the centre of the city. It was heavily polluted from centuries of sewage draining downhill from the
Old Town. In the 1840s the railway was built in the valley, and
Waverley Station opened in its present form in 1854.
The gardens run along the south side of
Princes Street and are divided by
The Mound. East Princes Street Gardens run from The Mound to Waverley Bridge, and cover 8.5 acres (34,000 m²). The larger West Princes Street Gardens cover 29 acres (117,000 m²) and extend to the adjacent churches of St. John's and St. Cuthbert's, near Lothian Road in the west.
The Gardens are a popular meeting place in Edinburgh, and play host to regular concerts at the Ross Bandstand, particularly at the city's
Hogmanay celebrations.
Monuments
Within the gardens, along the south side of Princes Street are many statues and monuments. Most prominent is the
gothic Scott Monument built in 1846 to honour Sir
Walter Scott. In East Princes Street Gardens there are also statues of explorer
David Livingstone, publisher
Adam Black and essayist Professor
John Wilson. In the West Gardens are statues of poet
Allan Ramsay, reformer
Thomas Guthrie, obstetric pioneer
James Young Simpson, as well as the Scottish American War Memorial, the
Ross Fountain and Bandstand, and a popular
floral clock.
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