Northern New Town and Moray Estate

 Another short walk near where I was staying in Edinburgh. As I love classical architecture the New Town is especially pleasing to my eye.

Of many fine classical buildings in the area, this one stands out because of its former resident, not of the building but of one of the flats therein. This is where Peter Pan author JM Barrie lived while at Edinburgh University

The Star Bar, complete with rather macabre decor  

This is Drummond Place, completed in the early 1820s. It forms a curved end to a square with gardens in the centre. Just a lovely area to live in.

King George V Park

The park contains the former site of the Scotland Street Station, the last remnant of which is below, now fronting a children's playground

The area has many very attractive muse houses; once stables but now desirable homes

Circus Lane

St Vincent's Church

The very elegantly designed Royal Circus, one of the features of the New Town.

This is the Moray Estate, developed from the 1820s by the Earl of Moray to cash in on the residential housing boom in Edinburgh. It has the very grandest of residences, but unsurprisingly the grandest of all he kept for himself, below. Now that is a town house!

Moray Place

You may not be familiar with him but this physicist established the theory of electromagnetism

Kay's Bar, a rather idiosyncratic pub, originally a coach house

A fine house, just one of many in Heriot Row. But this one was home of one of Scotland's most famous novelists, Robert Louis Stevenson.