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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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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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Edinburgh from Calton Hill, Scotland ©
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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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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Edinburgh from Calton Hill
Edinburgh Castle from the Esplanade
The Castle from the Terrace of Herio's Hospital
Edinburgh from the Castle
Holyrood Palace from the Public Gardens under Calton Hill
The Messenger from Flodden
Mary, Queen of Scots
James VI. Of Scotland and I. of England as a Boy, by Zucchero
The Apartments of Mary Queen of Scots in Holyrood Palace
The Church of St.Giles from the Lawnmarket
The Church of St.Giles from the Courts
John Knox's House, High Street
Lady Stair's Close
The Canongate Tolbooth, Looking West
George Heriot's Hospital from the North-East
Quadrangle of George Heriot's Hospital
The Martyrs' Monument in the Graveyard of Greyfriars'
Old Houses in Canongate
Princes Street from the Steps of the New Club
The High School and Burn's Monument from Jeffrey Street
Greenbreeks Leading the Potter Row Boys in a Bicker
The Castle and Scott Monument
Sir Walter Scott's Monument from the East Princes St.Gardens
Sir Walter Scott, 1822, by Sir Henry Raeburn
Edinburgh from Rest and Be Thankful
Arthur's Seat from the Braid Hills
The Water of Leith from Dean Bridge
The National Monument on Calton Hill
The charm of Edinburgh: an anthology by Harry Morley, 1913:
High Street
Old Edinburgh from Waverley Bridge
Edinburgh from Calton Hill
George Street
A View from Calton Hill
The Castle from Grassmarket
Princes Street, Looking East
Holyrood
The Castle and The Scott Memorial
Lady Stair's Close
John Knox's House
Arthur's Seat, Holyrood, and The Burns Monument
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Robert Fergusson Gravestone Canongate Kirkyard Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the Robert Fergusson Gravestone in Canongate Kirkyard, Royal Mile, on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. The gravestone was raised by Robert Burns who, on visiting Edinburgh twelve years after Fergusson's death, was shocked to find no memorial stone over the poet's grave. Burns commissioned the stone from Robert Burn, the architect who later designed the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill. It was erected in 1792 with lines on it written by Burns: No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied urn, nor animated Bust; This simple stone directs Pale Scotia's way; To pour her Sorrows o'er the Poet's Dust.
The surname Fergusson was first found in Galloway, Gaelic: Gall-ghaidhealaibh, an area of southwestern Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway, that formerly consisted of the counties of Wigtown, West Galloway, and Kirkcudbright, East Galloway, where they were descended from the Prince of Galloway who married the daughter of King Henry I of England. These ancient Lords of Galloway were independent rulers until they were annexed by Scotland in 1234. Alan, Prince of Galloway, was the last of the line. The Craigdarroch branch was the oldest but they also had branches at Cowal, Kintyre, Kilkerran, Atholl, Kinmundy, Pitfour.
The Ayrshire Fergusons, who descended from Fergus, the independent 12th century Lord of Galloway, were established in the Southwest of Scotland even before they received their charter from Bruce, the King of Scotland, in the 13th century. Furthermore, numerous families of the name Ferguson were established throughout Scotland at an early date. In Argyll, where the Ferguson Clan is particularly numerous, the Fergusons held lands in Strachur until the beginning of the 19th century. The Fergussons of Perthshire were recognized as the principal Highland branch of the Clan and the chieftainship belonged to the Dunfallandy family, the head of which was designated MacFhearghuis.
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Scottish Bagpipes Music Calton Hill Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a Scottish piper playing Scottish bagpipes music on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. There are many ancient legends and stories about bagpipes which were passed down through minstrels and oral tradition, whose origins are now lost. However evidence for Scottish bagpipes is more definite in 1396, when records of the Battle of the North Inch in Perth, Perthshire, mentions warpipes being carried into battle. Calton Hill is the location of some iconic Scottish monuments and buildings. Monuments include the National Monument, Dugald Stewart Monument, Nelson's Monument, the Old Royal High School, Robert Burns Monument, Political Martys' Monument and also the City Observatory
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Visit Scotland: Robert Burns Birthplace Museum & Burns Cottage Alloway
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Rosslyn Chapel and Stirling Castle One Day Tour from Edinburgh
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Forth Bridges - marvel at the engineering feat of the Forth Rail Bridge and the sweeping lines of the Queensferry Crossing
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