New Leeds scene
Introduction
The photograph on this page of New Leeds scene by Bill Harrison as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Bill Harrison Taken: 19 Apr 2016
New Leeds was established as a planned village in 1798, but as the Buildings of Scotland (Pevsner) Guide drily put it, growth has been 'glacial' since then and the village has a distinctly 'unfinished' feel to it in terms of un-metalled roads and dead-ends.