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	Calton Hill Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Robert Louis Stevenson once said that Calton Hill was the best viewpoint in the city as from it you could see both Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's Seat, something you couldn't from either of them.
		In advance of a referendum on the establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1978 this was converted to serve as a debating chamber.
		Beyond is the long ridge of Corstorphine Hill and beyond that the open countryside of West Lothian, extending as far as Cairnpapple Hill.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /edinburgh/caltonhill/index.html (878 words)

	Edinburgh - Calton Hill and Broughton \| Footprint Guides
		Calton Hill is well worth climbing for some of the best views in the city.
		On the west side of the hill, overlooking the St James Centre, is the old Calton Hill Observatory, also built by Playfair in 1818.
		Calton Hill is the site of anarchic pagan festivities at the feast of Beltane in May, and at night it’s a popular cruising area for the nearby gay community.
	www.footprintguides.com /Edinburgh/Calton-Hill-and-Broughton.php (1283 words)

	The WWW Official Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		CALTON HILL, though it does not possess the drama of the Castle Rock or the mass of Arthur's Seat, is readily recognisable to the stranger: it's the one with all the monuments scattered about it.
		It is not immediately apparent (unless viewed from the south) that Calton Hill was bisected in the early years of the nineteenth century by the creation of a broad highway, which was given the name of Regent Road, with Waterloo Place as its approach.
		Calton Hill also serves as our introduction to the classical architecture that is the hallmark of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town: on a flank of the hill stand the elegant buildings of Regent Terrace, Carlton Terrace and Royal Terrace, all designed by Playfair.
	learningat.ke7.org.uk /homeweb/UK-NetYear/EDINB/GUIDE/calton.htm (610 words)

	Pictures of Calton Hill in Edinburgh
		Situated on top of Calton Hill is Nelson's Monument and the Scottish National Monument dedicated to those who died in the Napoleonic Wars.
		Calton Hill may not be as geologically impressive as Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags or the Castle Rock but it does stand out in Edinburgh's skyline through the number of monuments situated on top of it.
		Incredible sunset on Calton Hill The date of the picture is August 31st, the evening of the Fireworks Concert that is a grand finish to the Edinburgh Festival.
	www.scotland-flavour.co.uk /calton-hill.html (632 words)

	Calton Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Calton Hill is the headquarters of Scotland's devolved government, the Scottish Executive, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill; with the Scottish Parliament Building, and other key buildings, for example Holyrood Palace, lying near the foot of the hill.
		The philosopher David Hume is buried on the eastern slope of the hill.
		Calton Hill is the venue for a number of events throughout the year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calton_Hill,_Edinburgh (432 words)

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		Calton Hill, at the east end of Princes Street, is another distinctive component of Edinburgh's skyline, 100m high and scattered with grandiose memorials mostly dating from the first half of the 19th century.
		Calton Hill also serves as our introduction to the classical architecture that is the hallmark of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town.
		The largest of the structures on Calton Hill is the National Monument, designed by William Henry Playfair, in honour of Scotland's dead in the Napoleonic wars.
	www.unc.edu /~debraw/scotland_calton_hill.html (215 words)

	Calton Hill - Edinburgh
		View from Calton Hill at sunset: Edinburgh castle rises in the middle of the horizon.
		The top of Calton hill is an excellent and usually quiet place to come on any day, with its grassy slopes and panoramic views of the city, including down the length of Princes street (the main shopping thoroughfare) and Edinburgh castle.
		In fact, there are two observatories on Calton Hill: the Old Observatory, designed by New Town architect James Craig in 1792; and the City Observatory, built in 1818, which has exhibitions and viewings of the night sky.
	www.edinburghguide.com /travel/visitor/caltonhill.htm (465 words)

	Calton Hill Conserving a Cultural Assest
		Calton Hill's semi-natural wilderness in the middle of the city is an asset.
		The research and survey work demonstrates that Calton Hill, its buildings, monuments, burial grounds and landscape is a Scottish cultural asset of international importance which should be cared for and promoted as such.
		Calton Hill derives its exceptional cultural significance from a number of different sources, all of which help us to understand the past, enrich the present, and which will be of value to future generations.
	www.edinburgh.gov.uk /CEC/Recreation/Heritage_and_Arts/Calton/Calton_Hill.html (464 words)

	Calton Hill, October 9th 2004
		Over 1000 people gathered to sign the Declaration of Calton Hill, written with the assistance of Alasdair Gray and translated into Urdu and Gaelic, which called for a free nation, based on the principles of equality, in which the people are sovereign.
		Edwin Morgan, the national poet, whose poem urging MSPs to do their jobs a whole lot better was read out in Holyrood, was on Calton Hill in spirit, having thrown in his lot with the republicans a few days before.
		There was no doubting what the people on Calton Hill were, as actor Tam Dean Burn, dressed as her Maj/Marge Simpson in sky-high blue wig, tartan tights and a Sex Pistols T-shirt, denounced the crowd for not being servile enough.
	www.scottishsocialistparty.org /calton/report.html (371 words)

	Edinburgh Accommodation: Apartments - Calton Hill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Number 24 Calton Hill (Top 2 floors) dates from 1772 & is a fine example of a Georgian tenement, boasting a wealth of charming period details.
		Calton Hill is extremely central, only 1 minutes walk from Princes street.
		The property is on the slope of Calton hill, which is one of Edinburgh's main hills.
	www.edlets.com /accommodation/self_catering/calton_hill (382 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Calton Hill fire fear on Beltane night
		CALTON Hill is set to be sealed off for a night to stop hundreds of people gathering there for unofficial pagan celebrations amid fears dry weather has turned the beauty spot into a "tinder box".
		The fire festival was first staged on Calton Hill in 1988 in a bid to revive some of the ancient Celtic traditions surrounding the start of the summer season.
		City licensing convener Dougie Kerr, who is also the local councillor for the Calton Hill area, said he was concerned about the problem and would be looking into what might need to be done to stop unofficial celebrations.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=458262003 (708 words)

	Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Photos, History, Monuments, Buildings, Scotland
		Calton Hill is largely an area of civic parkland but to the East are the
		The primary example, dominating Calton Hill is the National Monument (to the Napoleonic Dead), which is based on Acropolis, Athens.
		Calton Hill was volcanic similar to Arthur's Seat and Castle Rock.
	www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /calton_hill.htm (413 words)

	Calton Hill- Edinburgh, United Kingdom - VirtualTourist.com
		Calton Hill is not only one of the best vantage points of Edinburgh, it also offers many odd monuments mostly dating from the first half of the 19th century.
		The monuments on top of Calton Hill don't seem to have any connection, they all just seem to be placed there, independent of the others.
		Calton Hill is in the centre of Edinburgh, at the east end of Princes Street and has several 19th century monuments at the top.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Lothian/Edinburgh-313508/Things_To_Do-Edinburgh-Calton_Hill-BR-1.html (1545 words)

	Declaration of Calton Hill, 9th October 2004 - Signatures
		We endorse the Declaration of Calton Hill, 9th October 2004 Petition to Westminster Government.
		Read the Declaration of Calton Hill, 9th October 2004 Petition
		The Declaration of Calton Hill, 9th October 2004 Petition to Westminster Government was created by and written by Eddie Truman (eddie@mussey.org.uk).
	www.petitiononline.com /mod_perl/signed.cgi?calton (168 words)

	Robert Adam - Viaduct across the Low Calton
		This suburb, on the site where Waverley Station now stands, was hemmed in to the north-east by the steep slopes of Calton Hill, and the route to Leith lay through a deep ravine between Calton Hill and the ridge on which the Edinburgh New Town was laid out from 1767 onwards.
		The new Bridewell was to stand on the top of Calton Hill, and both the bridge and the viaduct must have been intended not least to provide access to this new scheme.
		Like the bridging of the Lower Calton at the foot of the Viaduct, the main vehicle arch is flanked by two pedestrian arches, the former marked as eighteen feet wide and both the latter six feet.
	www.scran.ac.uk /dl/ada/documents/viaduct/viaduct.htm (2140 words)

	Calton Square, Edinburgh, Baillie Gifford, Scotland, multiscreen, offices
		The two buildings are separated by a new square which breaks down the scale of the overall development and affords an uninterrupted view up to the monuments on Calton Hill.
		Entrance to the hotel is through an impressive church façade which reveals an ultra modern interior with contemporary designed rooms and suites all of which have views either over the city or the Calton Hill Folly.
		A new bridge is proposed by Broadway Malyan at the west end of Calton Square building across to the St James Centre.
	www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk /calton_square.htm (1397 words)

	Pictures of Calton Hill, Edinburgh
		A silhoutte of the monuments on Calton Hill.
		The Acropolis on Calton hill has remained unfinished for over 180 years.
		The National Observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh
	www.jameswiseman.com /edinburgh_caltonhill.php (159 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - City bans public from Beltane hill
		Calton Hill, where the world-famous fire festival has been held for the last 15 years, is to be closed to public access for the first time in living memory in a bid to curb any unofficial festivities.
		The Evening News revealed last week how the authority was considering a ban on public access to Calton Hill, after Beltane organisers admitted many revellers may still go there, either unaware the festival had been axed or for "spiritual reasons".
		He added: "Access to Calton Hill will be restricted from 6pm tomorrow to 6am on May 1 following concerns an unofficial event may take place that could pose a serious threat to public safety.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=488822003 (638 words)

	Calton Hill, Edinburgh - Visitor Information and Pictures
		Calton Hill -- often misinterpreted by tourists as Carlton Hill -- is one of Edinburgh's seven hills.
		Calton Hill on the web Links to other web pages related to Calton Hill.
		Calton Hill While not at the end of Princes Street itself, Calton Hill plays a very big part in the distinctive Edinburgh panorama but also as an excellent viewpoint.
	www.stuckonscotland.co.uk /edinburgh/calton-hill.html (731 words)

	Overview of Calton Hill
		Rising to 108m (355 feet) to the east end of Princes Street in the centre of Edinburgh, Calton Hill is not the highest of the city's hills, yet it occupies a dramatic setting with views to Leith, the Firth of Forth and Fife to the north and Holyrood Park to the south.
		Remarkable for its eclectic assortment of architecture Calton Hill is largely responsible for Edinburgh's soubriquet as The Athens of the North.
		Geologically the hill is volcanic in origin, dating from the Lower Carboniferous age (335 million years ago), similar to Arthur's Seat and Castle Rock.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst991.html (245 words)

	Scotland, Calton Hill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Calton Hill is one of Edinburgh's main hills.
		The columns on the hill are part of an unfinished memorial to those who died in the Napoleonic Wars.
		It was meant to be a replica of the Parthenon.
	home.att.net /~davidpride/Europe/Alba_01.htm (59 words)

	NCAW Autumn 05 \| Marc Fehlmann on the Intended Reconstruction of the Parthenon on Calton Hill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Designed by Charles Robert Cockerell in the 1820's on the summit of Calton Hill to house the mortal remains of those who had fallen in the Napoleonic Wars, it ended as an odd ruin with only part of the stylobate, twelve columns and their architrave at the West end completed in its Craigleith stone (fig.
		The idea of creating monuments for mortal remains of great men on Calton Hill was in line with a notion that, in 1777, had been borne with the erection of David Hume's Tomb by Robert Adam.
		This monument in the shape of a Roman mausoleum is situated on the old burial ground of Calton Hill, which lies on its southwestern spur and which was in use since 1719.
	www.19thc-artworldwide.org /autumn_05/articles/fehl.html (10358 words)

	Lothian Life the online magazine for Edinburgh and the Lothians » Archive » Calton Hill set for a spruce up (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Calton Hill, London Road Gardens and Hill Crescent Gardens in Edinburgh are all set for a makeover as work begins on a number of projects over the coming months.
		The work is part of a £5.6m capital investment in parks and greenspaces which aims to improve the use and enjoyment of the parks by the public and to enhance and conserve the historic, geological and nature value of the sites.
		Zoe Clark, director of Edinburgh World Heritage said, “Edinburgh World Heritage is delighted to able to support the improvements planned for Calton Hill, because it is one of the most significant parts of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
	www.lothianlife.co.uk /2007/02/calton-hill-set-for-a-spruce-up (458 words)

	Graphisoft - Blending the Edinburgh skyline
		The key challenge facing AMA was how to maintain the historic views to and from Calton Hill and, equally important, how to demonstrate this to the planning authority.
		A distinctive component of Edinburgh's skyline, Calton Hill houses the city's two observatories dating from 1792 and 1818 along with a host of other memorials from the early 19th Century.
		The panorama from the top of the hill provides one of the best views of Edinburgh and it was vital, not only that the new buildings did not obstruct the sightlines from the city, but also that the vista from the hill top was maintained and enhanced.
	www.graphisoft.com /community/success_stories/caltonhill.html (2019 words)

	, Greenside
		Calton Road is down below and Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags are in the distance, behind some smoky chimneys near the bottom of the Royal Mile.
		This is the street called Calton Hill which leads up the actual hill itself.
		Between Calton Hill and Leith Street is this carpark which, in the 21st century, is finally going to have something built on top of it.
	www.henniker.org.uk /html/calton.htm (318 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Republicans converge on the hill
		At 0930 on Saturday, Calton Hill in Edinburgh was anything but a hotbed of radicalism.
		It is a 450-word document which commits signatories to campaign for an independent Scottish republic "built on the principles of liberty, equality, diversity and solidarity".
		Mr Fox said everyone on the hill believed Scotland's population were citizens not subjects.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3729874.stm (964 words)

	Calton, Scotland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Of the various extensions to the New Town, the most engaging is Calton, which branches out from the eastern end of Princes Street and encircles a volcanic hill.
		On its southern side is the sombre and overgrown Old Calton Burial Ground, in which you can see Robert Adam's plain, cylindrical memorial to David Hume and a monument, complete with a statue of Abraham Lincoln, to the Scots who died in the American Civil War.
		Robert Louis Stevenson reckoned that Calton Hill was the best place to view Edinburgh, "since you can see the castle, which you lose from the castle, and Arthur's Seat, which you cannot see from Arthur's Seat".
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/scotland/calton (451 words)

	Edinburgh - St Giles, Calton Hill, Scotts Monument
		Calton Hill is situated in the east end of Edinburgh’s centre.
		The hill is also home to the Old Observatory (1792) and the City Observatory (1818) both of which have been responsible for Edinburgh’s tradition in astronomy.
		Situated in the East side of Princes Street Gardens the two hundred foot tall monument is a tribute to the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832).
	www.firstcity.force9.co.uk /cul06.htm (473 words)

	Alvin Langdon Coburn / From Calton Hill / ca. 1905
		Alvin Langdon Coburn / From Calton Hill / ca.
		This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
		From Calton Hill" mount recto-(in pencil) "21" circled verso-copy b.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico295092-61099.html (271 words)

	EDINBURGH - Calton Hill , Scotland Photographs, Photography pictures by stock photographer Doug Houghton
		067058 CALTON HILL - Cannon and Parthenon pillars of the National Monument - National Monument EDINBURGH - Calton Hill Scotland
		067057 CALTON HILL - Observation tower - Nelson Monument EDINBURGH - Calton Hill Scotland
		067056 CALTON HILL - Cannon and Observation memorial tower - Nelson Monument EDINBURGH - Calton Hill Scotland
	www.doughoughton.com /webpage/page/page036.html (403 words)

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