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A History of Edinburgh's Georgian West End Guidebooks one of Stockbridge's most distinguishedIn the early 1800s Shandwick Pace was created as part of a new road from Edinburgh to Glasgow, and the land around it developed as a western extension to James Craig's original New Town. This book recounts the history of the West End streets built in that Georgian phase: Alva Street, Atholl Crescent, Coates Crescent, Maitland Street, Manor Place, Melville Crescent. Melville Street, Queensferry Street, Rutland Square, Rutland Street, Shandwick Place,