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Scott Monument

The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the in Havana.
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—9:00 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott
  • Also known as: “monument to Sir Walter Scott”, “Monument to the late Sir Walter Scott”, “monument to Walter Scott”, “Scott Monument, Princes Street, Edinburgh”, and “Sir Walter Scott Monument”
  • Address: East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
  • Wheelchair access: no
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station and Edinburgh Castle.

Railway station
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Edinburgh Waverley is the principal railway station serving , Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after . The station serves as the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, 393 miles 13 chains from , although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh. is situated 600 feet east of Scott Monument.

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is a historic castle in , . It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Scott Monument.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. is situated 720 feet southwest of Scott Monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Suburb
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is an area of , . was an ancient feudal barony that existed outside of Edinburgh before it was later incorporated into the city as urban development took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Scott Monument

Latitude
55.95236° or 55° 57′ 9″ north
Longitude
-3.19326° or 3° 11′ 36″ west
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
Inception
1844
Height
200 feet (61 metres)
Open location code
9C7RXR24+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39044819
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Geo­Names ID
11071570
Wiki­data ID
Q2502213
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Scott Monument” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Scott Monument”
  • Basque: “Scott monumentua”
  • Bengali: “স্কট মনুমেন্ট”
  • Catalan: “Scott Monument”
  • Cebuano: “Scott Monument”
  • Chinese: “司各特紀念塔”
  • Chinese: “司各特纪念塔”
  • Czech: “Scott Monument”
  • Danish: “Scott Monument”
  • Dutch: “Scott Monument”
  • Finnish: “Scottin muistomerkki”
  • French: “Scott Monument”
  • Hebrew: “אנדרטת סקוט”
  • Italian: “Monumento a Scott”
  • Italian: “Scott Monument”
  • Japanese: “スコット・モニュメント”
  • Japanese: “スコット記念塔”
  • Russian: “Монумент Вальтера Скотта”
  • Russian: “Монумент Скотта”
  • Scots: “Scott Monument”
  • Slovenian: “Scottov spomenik”
  • Spanish: “Monumento a Scott”
  • Spanish: “Monumento a Walter Scott en Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Monumento Scott”
  • Spanish: “Scott Monument”
  • Swedish: “Scott Monument”
  • Welsh: “Cofadail Scott”
  • Welsh: “Cofeb Scott”

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