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    GRAND DESIGNS

    Oct 23, 2020 4 minutes
    Words by JUDY VICKERS

    Often described as the high point of the Scottish capital’s first New Town, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, this year marks the 200th anniversary of the completion of the architectural jewel, Charlotte Square.

    For centuries the ancient city of Edinburgh had lain huddled on and around the tail of the Castle Rock, enclosed for safety between the city walls and the Nor’ Loch, the tenements in its crammed closes housing the rich and the poor together.

    But with the end of the Jacobite rising in the mid-18th century, Scotland entered a new era of peace and the overcrowded city began to eye

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