Everything about Newington Edinburgh totally explained
Newington is an area of
Edinburgh,
Scotland, about 15 to 20 minutes walk south of the city centre, the
Royal Mile and
Princes Street.
It is the easternmost district of the area formerly covered by the
Burgh Muir, gifted to the City by
David I in the
12th Century. It is bounded to the east by Dalkeith Rd, to the west by Causewayside, to the North by East and West Preston St, and to the south by East and West Mayfield.
Even after the
1586 consolidation of land rights over the Burgh Muir, the area remained largely rural. The Newington Estate was purchased sometime before 1672 by John Lauder, a
Baillie and Treasurer of Edinburgh, who thereafter took the landed designation "of Newington", until he became
Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet of Fountainhall. This family later also became possessed, by marriage, of the estate of
The Grange, Edinburgh.
With overcrowding of the city centre being initially alleviated by migration to the north, to the
New Town, via the
North Bridge erected in
1772. However, many people felt that the New Town, elegant as it was, didn't offer privacy and intimacy, and so, when the South Bridge was built in
1788, parts of Newington became available for development and migration there commenced, generally into small villas. Many of these can still be seen. Much of the tenement building, however wasn't to come for another 100 years.
This main road is highly commercial, containing various retail businesses and pubs. These are mostly the ground floor of residential
tenement buildings.
Newington is heavily populated by students, many living in
Pollock Halls of Residence, purpose-built
halls for the
University of Edinburgh. This popularity with students is largely due to the area's proximity to both of the University of Edinburgh's main campuses:
George Square and
King's Buildings.
Newington adjoins
The Meadows,
Sciennes, and
Grange to the west, and
Holyrood Park and
Prestonfield to the east.
Places of interest in Newington include the
Jewish Cemetery at Sciennes House Place, which adjoins 5 Sciennes House Place (formerly Sciennes Hill House), the site of the only known meeting of
Sir Walter Scott and
Robbie Burns in the winter of 1786-87. A plaque on the site commemorates this event, which was immortalised by the painter Charles Martin Hardie A.R.S.A.
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