image copyright Rachel Windsor

Inverleith Park was laid out in 1890 directly west of the Royal Botanic Gardens on land which had been purchased for the city from Fettes Trust after a campaign by the Cockburn Association to prevent the land being used for tenements.  The East Gate was designed by Sydney Mitchell and is dedicated to Alison Dunlop, who wrote a book called Anent Edinburgh.  Her brother Charles Dunlop, a city magistrate, is remembered in a monument at the cross point in the centre of the park.