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Cowgate. The Cowgate ( Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about 550 yards (500 m) southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town, which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge.
Status. Open all year. Holyrood Park (also called the King's Park or Queen's Park depending on the reigning monarch's gender) is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It is open to the public. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse ...
Sanda Island. / 55.28; -5.58. Sanda Island ( Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) is a small island in the Firth of Clyde, off of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, near the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, near Southend and Dunaverty Castle . On clear days Sanda can be seen from the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, from the Isle of Arran and from ...
Newcraighall ( Scots: Newcraighauch, [1] Scottish Gaelic: Talla na Creige Nuadh) [2] is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and closed in the 1960s, work transferring to nearby Bilston Glen and in particular ...
The foundation stone was laid on 4 March 1637. The church was formally opened and dedicated to Christ by the citizens of Edinburgh in 1641, and known as "Christ's Kirk at the Tron ". It was built for the South-East parish, one of the four parishes of Edinburgh after the Scottish Reformation of 1560. Prior to the erection of this new church ...
The Parish Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh. Probably founded in the 7th century, the church once covered an extensive parish around the burgh of Edinburgh. The church's current building was designed by Hippolyte Blanc and completed in 1894. St Cuthbert's is situated within a large ...
Abbeyhill. Coordinates: 55°57′25.81″N 3°10′10.30″W. London Road, Abbeyhill. Abbeyhill is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland . Abbeyhill is one of the oldest parts of the city, taking its name from Holyrood Abbey, a major historic religious site. [1] The main east-west thoroughfare through the area is London Road, laid in ...
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