Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Garden

The Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Garden (previously known as the Carlton Hill Pleasure Ground, the Large Garden and Regent Gardens) is a private communal garden in the New Town area of Edinburgh, EH7. The garden lies over a 4.8-hectare (12-acre) site on the east side of Calton Hill. The garden has been listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes as part of the New Town gardens heritage designation since March 2001.

The garden cannot be publicly seen except from the properties adjacent to it. The garden is the largest of the gardens in Edinburgh's New Town that are still in private ownership; they are managed by the Regent Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens Association. The garden has occasionally been publicly accessible through the annual Doors Open Days scheme.

The management of the garden is governed by a Local Act of Parliament, the Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens, Edinburgh Order Confirmation Act 1970, which received Royal Assent in May 1970.

The Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Garden forms a triangular plot bordered by the individual domestic gardens of Regent Terrace and Carlton Terrace.

The garden was created between 1830 and 1832; the feu having been granted after an agreement that the ground be used for pleasure gardens. The garden was laid out with the help of the naturalist and gardener, Patrick Neill, and botanist Robert Graham, the Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden. The layout of the garden has remained largely unchanged since its inception.

The layout of the garden is broadly divided into a large 7 acre lawn area and a smaller 5 acre woodland area. The lawn area is planted with several different species of trees with a terrace of lime trees set near a ha-ha near the Calton Hill boundary wall at the top of the garden. Various paths covered by trees surround the large lawn area. The woodland area is planted with crocuses, daffodils and bluebells. A survey of the trees in the garden in 1984 recorded several species including cherry, sycamore, black poplar and sweet chestnut trees.

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