Dugald Stewart Monument Calton Hill Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Dugald Stewart Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The Dugald Stewart Monument is a memorial to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart. It is situated on top of Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh city centre. The monument was built in 1831 to the design of architect William Henry Playfair, and modelled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens
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Tour Scotland video of the Dugald Stewart Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The Dugald Stewart Monument is a memorial to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart. It is situated on top of Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh city centre. The monument was built in 1831 to the design of architect William Henry Playfair, and modelled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens
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Approachable from several places, Calton Hill is an ancient volcanic hill in central Edinburgh situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are frequently found in photographs and paintings of the city. There are several routes you can take around and across the summit of the hill to explore the various monuments there. It is beside the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the southern slope of the hill, with the Scottish Parliament Building, and Holyrood Palace lying near the foot of the hill. The hill is also the location of several iconic monuments and buildings: the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory. There are also excellent views from the summit of the city, the Radical Road, Arthur's Seat and the Firth of Forth from the top. It is said that if you bathe your face in dew on Calton Hill at sunrise on May 1st, (May Day) it will guarantee eternal beauty.
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Dugald Stewart
'''Dugald Stewart''' (22 November 1753 11 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for popularizing the Scottish Enlightenment, for his lectures at the University of Edinburgh were widely disseminated by his many influential students.
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Trip to Edinburgh: Part Two
Featuring Calton Hill, Scottish National Monument, Dugald Stewart Monument.
On Calton Hill we bid farewell to Edinburgh, my filming was cut a little short due to illness, but we will return to Edinburgh - such a great city.
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This monument, although begun in 1822 was never finished. It was to have been an imitation of the Parthenon and now remains an unfinished but authentic part of Edinburgh's skyline.
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- ... the hill for the second time today, and at the top saw the gathering of semi-finished Classical buildings: the Pantheon-like National Monument for the dead of the Napoleonic wars, the Nelson Monument commemorating the Battle of Trafalgar and the Old City ...
- ... The hill is home to the National Monument, Nelson's Monument, and several others ...
- ... El Duguld Stewart Monument se inspiro en la Torre de los Vientos de Lisicrates; el National Monument (en memoria de los muertos en las batallas napoleonicas), en la Acropolis; y las columnas doricas de la Royal ...
- ... Calton Hill is home to the National Monument, which is designed after the Parthenon and serves as a tribute to Scots who lost their lives during the Napoleonic Wars ...
- ... Day 3: This day we started off by going up to the Scottish national monument ...
- ... Versorgt und entledigt ging es dann weiter zum Calton Hill mit National Monument, Nelson Monument, Portugiesischer Kanone, Sternwarte und guter Aussicht vom Nordosten auf die Stadt und Burg Edinburgh ...
- ... The acropolis is in fact an unfinished monument - originally called the National Monument ...
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- Scottish National Monument by Essonsea from a blog titled Glasgow-Edinburgh-Inverness
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- National Monument by Will from a blog titled The anti climax of 2006.
- The National Monument by Cattawa87 from a blog titled Kilts and Bagpipes
- The National Monument by Scotmonk from a blog titled Dùn Èideann - Die Festung am Hügelland
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- National Monument by Aarondewitt from a blog titled oot and aboot edinburgh
- National monument by Lsummers from a blog titled My New Favorite City
Top Panorama View @ Calton Hill Edinburgh Scotland United Kingdom
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK ) Calton Hill
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK ) Calton Hill
Calton Hill ( the Calton Hill ), is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the Calton Hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill; with the Scottish Parliament Building, and other notable buildings, for example Holyrood Palace, lying near the foot of the hill. The hill is also the location of several iconic monuments and buildings: the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
By his charter of 1456, James II granted the community of Edinburgh the valley and the low ground between Calton Hill and Greenside for performing tournaments, sports and other warlike deeds. The village of Calton was situated at the bottom of the ravine at the western end of Calton Hill (hence its earlier name of Craigend), on the road from Leith Wynd in Edinburgh and North Back of Canongate to Leith Walk and also to Broughton and thence the Western Road to Leith. In the village, the street was variously known as St. Ninian's Row or Low Calton. Many of the old buildings here were demolished at the time of the Waterloo Place and Regent Bridge development, which bridged the ravine, from 1816. The remaining old village houses of the Low Calton were removed in the 1970s.
Calton was in South Leith Parish and Calton people went to church in Leith. The churchyard there was inconveniently situated for burials from Calton and, in 1718, the Society bought a half acre of land at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino for use as a burial ground. This became known as Old Calton Burial Ground. Permission was granted for an access road, originally known as High Calton and now the street called Calton Hill, up the steep hill from the village to the burial ground. The group of 1760s houses near the top of this street are all that remain of the old village.
Calton Hill is the venue for a number of events throughout the year. The largest of these is the Beltane Fire Festival held on 30 April each year, attended by over 12,000 people. The Dussehra Hindu Festival also takes place on Calton Hill near the beginning of October each year.
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Scotland - Calton Hill in Edinburgh
This is a quick video of Calton Hill. There are great views over Edinburgh to be had from the top of the hill. I was fortunate to have a nice clear day which made for outstanding views of Arthur's Seat and the city looking toward Edinburgh Castle. Structures on Calton Hill include the Dugald Stewart Monument, The National Monument and the Nelson Monument. It's well worth a visit. Note: The music you hear is Glengass by the Scottish band Wolfstone. Check them out.
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This video will show cultural and natural aspects of Edinburgh:
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2. Princes Street Gardens
3. Calton Hill: Nelson Monument, National Monument of Scotland, and Dugald Stewart Monument
4. Holyrood Park
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Calton Hill - Edinburgh (Scotland)
Calton Hill (archaically spelt Caltoun or Caldoun and also known as the Calton Hill), is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, just to the east of Princes Street and is included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
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Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Northwestern view)
Calton Hill (/ˈkɔːltən/) is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill. The Scottish Parliament Building and other notable buildings such as Holyrood Palace lie near the foot of the hill. Calton Hill is also the location of several iconic monuments and buildings: the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
In 1456, James II granted land to Edinburgh by charter wherein Calton Hill is referred to as Cragingalt, the name by which it appears on the 1560 Petworth map of the Siege of Leith (rendered as Cragge Ingalt). The name may have derived from Old Welsh or Old English meaning the place of the groves.[5]
The records of South Leith Parish Church name Caldtoun as one of the quarters of the parish in 1591,[6] though the village and area are otherwise generally referred to as Craigend, signifying the main land form (crags) at the western end of the feudal barony of Restalrig, as opposed to the distinguishing feature at its eastern end, a loch, hence the name Lochend. The name Caldtoun (sometimes anglicised as Cold town) remained general until about 1700; the names Calton and Caltonhill first appearing when Wester Restalrig was sold to Edinburgh in 1725. The Armstrongs' map of the Three Lothians (1773) still uses the name Caldtoun and Ainslie's maps of Edinburgh record a change in spelling from Caltoun to Calton between 1780 and 1804.
There was possibly a prehistoric hillfort on Calton Hill and an area used for quarrying (the Quarry Holes at the eastern end). By his charter of 1456, James II granted the community of Edinburgh the valley and the low ground between Calton Hill and Greenside for performing tournaments, sports and other warlike deeds. This was part of his policy of military preparedness that saw the Act of 1457 banning golf and football and ordering archery practice every Sunday. This natural amphitheatre was also used for open-air theatre and saw performances of the early Scots play Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by Sir David Lyndsay. In May 1518 the Carmelite Friars (also known as White Friars and locally based at South Queensferry), were granted lands by charter from the city at Greenside and built a small monastery there.
Monasteries were abandoned following the Scottish Reformation of 1560, and the Calton Hill monastery therefore stood empty before conversion in 1591 into a hospital for lepers, founded by John Robertson, a city merchant. So severe were the regulations that escape, or even the opening of the gate of the hospital between sunset and sunrise, would incur the penalty of death carried out on the gallows erected at the gate. The monastery would appear to have been located at the north-east end of Greenside Row and its site is shown there on the 1931 Ordnance Survey maps. Ten skeletons found in July 2009 during roadworks to create a new tramway in Leith Walk (later cancelled but currently undergoing public consultation) are believed to have been connected with the hospital.
Washerwomen on Calton Hill (1825)
The Calton area was owned by the Logan family of Restalrig but their lands were forfeited in 1609 following the posthumous sentence of treason on Robert Logan. The lands of Restalrig and Calton, otherwise known as Easter and Wester Restalrig, passed to the Elphinstone family. Sir James Elphinstone was made Lord Balmerino in 1604 and in 1673 the lands of Restalrig and Calton were erected into a single barony. In 1725, the western side of Calton Hill was disjoined and sold to the royal burgh of Edinburgh. The eastern end was owned by the charitable institution of Heriot's Trust. Calton remained a burgh of barony (although it was not administered as such) until it was formally incorporated into Edinburgh by the Municipality Extension Act of 1856.
In 1631, the then Lord Balmerino granted a charter to The Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton forming a society or corporation. This also gave the Society the exclusive right to trade within Calton and the right to tax others who wished to do so. Normally the trades of burghs were separately incorporated, for example in the Canongate there were eight incorporations, but the Incorporated Trades of Calton allowed any tradesman to become a member providing they were healthy and their work was of an acceptable standard. This lack of restrictive practices allowed a thriving trade to develop.
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Calton Hill’s Monuments and Buildings- Edinburgh, Scotland History
This video attempts to make sense of what the monuments and buildings of Calton Hill are able to tell us about the history of Edinburgh.
This video was first used as a multimedia project for the University of Edinburgh.
It has been published on YouTube with the permission of all contributors. The voice, slide show and script has been edited and put together by myself.
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Views Around the City of Edinburgh, Scotland - 2nd & 3rd December, 2014
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, situated in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. It is the second most populous city in Scotland and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. To read more about Edinburgh, click here: .
This film is taken at varying locations in and around the city of Edinburgh, beginning at Duddingston, with a walk along Queen's drive past Holyrood Park, towards the city centre, along Princes Street, around the Christmas Markets, the Lothian Road area, up to the Castle, down the Royal Mile, up to Calton Hill and then finishing back in the centre on Rose Street, the film was taken over two consecutive days in December 2014, when Edinburgh was preparing for Christmas.
Identified locations and features within the film are as follows: Duddingston; Duddingston Loch; Holyrood Park; Salisbury Crags; Arthur's Seat; Queen's Drive; St. Leonard's Hall (University of Edinburgh); St. Peter's Church (Lutton Place); Rankeillor Street; Nicolson Street; Nicolson Square Gardens & Tubal Cain Monument; University of Edinburgh Old College; Cowgate; Tron Kirk; View to Calton Hill from North Bridge; View to Holyrood Park from North Bridge; View to Edinburgh Castle from North Bridge; Scott Monument; Edinburgh's Christmas Market & Fair; Hanover Street; Princes Street; Edinburgh Castle; St. John's Church; St. Cuthbert's Church; Usher Hall; Lothian Road; Spittal Street; Esplanade; View to Frederick Street from Edinburgh Castle; View to Princes Street Gardens from Edinburgh Castle; View over the Old Town from Edinburgh Castle; The Hub; Lawnmarket; St. Giles' Cathedral; High Street; View towards Princes Street from North Bridge; Edinburgh Waverley Station; Under North Bridge; Calton Hill; The National Monument; Nelson Monument; Dugald Stewart Monument; View towards the Forth Bridges from Calton Hill; Views over Leith from Calton Hill; Royal Bank of Scotland; Harvey Nichols; St. Andrew Square; South St. David Street; and Rose Street.
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