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The New Town and its Gardens

New tour for 2013. Discover the grandeur of Georgian Edinburgh through buildings and gardens designed to impress. Edinburgh's New Town is the largest and best preserved example of Georgian town planning in the UK. It still retains dozens of communal, private gardens, many by Act of Parliament.

See beyond the railings: each tour will include a visit to one of the privately-owned New Town gardens. Depending on the day you choose, you may visit either East Queen Street Garden for its 'Grecian temple' and wonderful vintage trees, or Central Queen Street Garden to see the pond where, as a child, Robert Louis Stevenson began to imagine a treasure island. See tour diary for details of which garden we'll visit in each tour.

I can thoroughly recommend the New Town tour which took me to places I didn't know existed or which I wouldn't have been able to get into, and as always Jean really knows her stuff! Lin, Edinburgh

Tour Details

When:	Thursdays 16 May, 13 June, 18 July, 10 October 11.00 am EVENING TOUR Tuesday 25 June 6.00 pm Friday 2 August - Monday 26 August - Special Edinburgh Fringe programme every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 10.00 am Note that tours frequently sell out in August. Please book to avoid disappointment, either here or through www.edfringe.com (after March)
Where:	Meet inside East Princes Street Gardens, near Scott Monument, EH2 2EJ. see map
Details:	Tour lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes and ends in various points in the New Town. Up to one-and-a-half miles mainly downhill pavement walking; some steep slopes (up and down), rough garden tracks and steps.
Cost:	Cost: £10 'turn up and go' Special pre-paid rate: £8 August: £10; prepaid not available. Special offer! half-price tours on Friday 2 August (Fringe Preview), Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 August. Book online
Group tours:	Group bookings are welcome at any time of year. Check here for more information, including special group rates. If you'd like to book a group tour at a time to suit you, please phone 0131 444 1725 or email jean@greenyondertours.com

Updated 6 March 2013