The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City

by Jan-Andrew Henderson

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Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten.

For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning population built over every inch of square space. And when there was no more room, they began to dig down . . .

Trapped in lives of poverty and crime, these subterranean dwellers existed in darkness and misery, ignored by the chroniclers of their time. It is only in the last few years that the shocking truth has begun to emerge about the sinister underground city.

  • ISBN10 1840182318
  • ISBN13 9781840182316
  • Publish Date 16 September 1999
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Mainstream Publishing
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 176
  • Language English