Old Photograph Middle Meadow Walk Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Scots walking on Middle Meadow Walk in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Meadows is a large public park to the south of the city centre. In 1722 Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet Hope of Craighall, born 1681, died 1771, an agricultural improver and politician, ordered drainage work here, making the marshy land into a park with a path round the edge, hedges, avenues of lime trees, drainage canals and a summer house. The central tree lined path known as Middle Meadow Walk followed, and for several decades maps labelled this area as The Meadows or Hope Par". It is the traditional practice ground of the Royal Company of Archers, whose meeting place is nearby. In 1827 an Act of Parliament protected the Meadows from being built upon.



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