Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
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cockburn-street-edinburgh-248-15315576
title:
Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
text:
Cockburn Street is a street in Edinburgh's Old Town, created as a serpentine link from the High Street to Waverley Station in 1856. Originally named Lord Cockburn Street after the then recently-deceased Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure Henry, Lord Cockburn who was influential in urging his fellow citizens to remain vigilant in ensuring that early-Victorian expansion, e.g. improvements such as Cockburn Street, did not irrevocably damage or obliterate the built heritage and environment.
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wiki
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Thoroughfare in Edinburgh, Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn_Street,_Edinburgh
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date modified:
2023-06-20T15:59:49Z
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