Buccleuch (parish), Edinburgh

Unlike the north, where streets were formally planned, on the south this happened on an ad hoc basis, centred on existing roads leading out of the city to neighbouring towns such as Dalkeith and Peebles.

[2][failed verification] The church was built 1755-6 in advance of most of the redevelopment, but was not flamboyant in any way, and took the form of a simple box chapel.

Older groups, such as Boroughloch Square, existed to the west, where expansion was generally limited by the pre-existing common lands on the Meadows.

Its somewhat austere exterior belies its internal beauty and its status at the time of construction, being home to many lords and ladies.

[6] Two periods of "slum clearance" have changed the original pattern: the City Architect (E J MacRae) created stone-built semi-traditional blocks north of East Richmond Street; and the city demolished the dense tenements in Dumbiedykes and St Leonards in the early 1960s, replacing them with non-traditional forms.