Leith

Leith is the historic port of the capital of Scotland, north of city centre on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It's now only a minor port and has lost much of its industry, to be replaced by retail, bistros and cobbled wharves.
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  • Type: Suburb with 50,000 residents
  • Description: suburb of Edinburgh and former municipal burgh in Scotland
  • Also known as: “Lìte”

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMY Britannia and Easter Road.

Museum
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Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893.

Stadium
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is a football stadium located in the Leith area of , Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. The stadium currently has an all-seated capacity of 20,421, which makes it the sixth-largest football stadium in Scotland.

Museum
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Trinity House, 99 Kirkgate, is a building in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, which was a guild hall, custom house, and centre for maritime administration and poor relief.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Newhaven.

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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 a district in the capital city of Scotland, , which lies between Leith and and is about 2 miles north of the city centre of Edinburgh, just north of the Victoria Park district.

Quarter
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is a district of , the capital of . The area centres upon an original village which grew up around a ford on the , on the old boundary between Edinburgh and the port of Leith.

Leith

Latitude
55.97255° or 55° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.17095° or 3° 10′ 15″ west
Population
50,000
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LEI
Open location code
9C7RXRFH+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 35786352
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2644641
Wiki­data ID
Q1018540
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Leith” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليث”
  • Armenian: “Լիթ”
  • Asturian: “Leith”
  • Basque: “Leith”
  • Belarusian: “Лейт”
  • Catalan: “Leith”
  • Chinese: “利斯”
  • Czech: “Leith”
  • Danish: “Leith”
  • Dutch: “Leith (Edinburgh)”
  • Dutch: “Leith”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليث”
  • Estonian: “Leith”
  • Faroese: “Leith”
  • Finnish: “Leith”
  • French: “Leith”
  • Georgian: “ლეითი”
  • German: “Leith”
  • Greek: “Λιθ”
  • Hebrew: “ליית‘”
  • Hebrew: “ליית’”
  • Indonesian: “Leith”
  • Irish: “Inbhir Lìte”
  • Irish: “Lìte”
  • Italian: “Leith”
  • Japanese: “リース (エディンバラ)”
  • Japanese: “リース (スコットランド)”
  • Japanese: “リース”
  • Japanese: “リーチ (ミッドロージアン)”
  • Japanese: “レイス (エジンバラ)”
  • Kalaallisut: “Leith”
  • Kazakh: “Лит”
  • Korean: “리스”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Leith”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leith”
  • Norwegian: “Leith”
  • Persian: “لیث”
  • Polish: “Leith”
  • Portuguese: “Leith”
  • Romanian: “Leith”
  • Russian: “Лейт”
  • Russian: “Лит (Шотландия)”
  • Russian: “Лит”
  • Scots: “Leith”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Lìte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lìte”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Leith”
  • Slovak: “Leith”
  • Slovenian: “Leith”
  • Spanish: “Leith”
  • Swedish: “Leith”
  • Thai: “ลีท”
  • Thai: “ลีธ”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейт”
  • Ukrainian: “Літ”
  • Welsh: “Leith”
  • Welsh: “Lìte”
  • “Leith”
  • “Leith - Lìte”
  • “Lìte”

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