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Edinburgh architecture and literary associations

Scottish Parliament Canongate Kirk
University Old College Greyfriars Kirk
Robert Adam's Buildings St Andrew and St George
The New Town St Cuthbert
The Old Town ( Royal Mile ) St John
Grassmarket St Stephen
Art Galleries The Ross Fountain


Literary Locations:  Robert Burns   Arthur Conan Doyle   David Hume   Robert Fergusson   James Clerk Maxwell   Allan Ramsay   Ian Rankin   Sir Walter Scott   Adam Smith   Sydney Goodsir Smith   Alexander McCall Smith   R L Stevenson   Dugald Stewart   Literary Pubs

Views of Edinburgh Watercolours by D.F. Semple

A Prayer:

Our Cramond that Marchmont Newhaven, Holyrood Bruntsfield Grange; thy Colinton Comely-Bank; thy Liberton in Leith, Arthur's Seat Corstorphine; Granton Lasswade our Dalkeith Braids and Forthbrig us our Tollcrosses, as we Fairmilehead them that Grassmarket Cowgate us. Queensferry us not into Tynecastle but Dean Brig us Tron Mayfield, for St. Giles Inch the King's Park, the Powderhall, the Gorgie; for Waverley and Waverley. Dun Edin.
From Carotid Cornucopius by Sydney Goodsir Smith (1964)


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