Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a work of art in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sherlock Holmes is situated nearby to Fayre Play, as well as near the health club Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing.- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Inscription: “IN MEMORY OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - BORN ON 22 MAY 1859 CLOSE TO THIS SPOT - DONATED TO THE CITY OF EDINBURGH BY - EDINBURGH AND LOTHIANS OF THE FEDERATION OF MASTER BUILDERS - ON THE FEDERATION’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Mary’s Cathedral and Calton Hill.
St Mary’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, also known as St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Calton Hill
Park
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Calton Hill is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Calton Hill is situated 1,000 feet southeast of Sherlock Holmes.
Edinburgh Playhouse
Theater building
Photo: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seats it is the largest theatre in Scotland and second largest in the United Kingdom, after the Hammersmith Apollo. The theatre is owned by Ambassador Theatre Group. Edinburgh Playhouse is situated 410 feet east of Sherlock Holmes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broughton and Bellevue.
Broughton
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broughton is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Broughton 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.
Bellevue
Neighborhood
Bellevue is a district of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the south east of Canonmills, west of Leith Walk and south of Leith, incorporating the easternmost extent of Edinburgh's New Town UNESCO heritage site.
New Town
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Town of Edinburgh is 250 years old, in contrast to the Old Town 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.
Sherlock Holmes
- Category: tourism
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95659° or 55° 57′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.18697° or 3° 11′ 13″ westInception
June 24th, 1991Open location code
9C7RXR47+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 11222240570OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statue
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