Dumbiedykes
Dumbiedykes is a residential area in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It mainly comprises public housing developments. It is bounded in the north by Holyrood Road, the west by the Pleasance and St Leonard's Street and the east by Holyrood Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and National Museum of Scotland.
Edinburgh Castle
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Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, 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.
National Museum of Scotland
Museum
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The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum, with international collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.
Scottish Parliament Building
Government building
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The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament held their first debate in the new building on 7 September 2004.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holyrood and Guse Dub.
Holyrood
Neighborhood
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holyrood is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, lying east of the city centre, at the foot of the Royal Mile. The area takes its name from Holyrood Abbey, which was the Church of the Holy Rude. Holyrood includes the following sites:…
Southside, Edinburgh
Suburb
The Southside is an area of Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh, located between its historic Old Town, Holyrood Park and the neighbourhood of Newington.
Dumbiedykes
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.94835° or 55° 56′ 54″ northLongitude
-3.17829° or 3° 10′ 42″ westElevation
253 feet (77 metres)Open location code
9C7RWRXC+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 291993025OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Japanese—“Dumbiedykes” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dumbiedykes”
- Japanese: “ダミーダイクス”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pleasance and Canongate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Braidwood Centre and Braidwood Centre Comunity Garden.
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