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The Baxter Hostel

The Baxter Hostel is a hostel in , which is located on West Register Street. The Baxter Hostel is situated nearby to , as well as near .
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  • Type: Hostel
  • Address: 5 West Register Street
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station and Scott Monument.

Railway station
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 640 feet south of The Baxter Hostel.

Photo: Schatir, Public domain.
The 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. is situated 760 feet southwest of The Baxter Hostel.

Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 2,700 feet southwest of The Baxter Hostel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

Photo: PerryPlanet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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".

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

The Baxter Hostel

Latitude
55.95366° or 55° 57′ 13″ north
Longitude
-3.19034° or 3° 11′ 25″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR35+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11250857723
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­hostel
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
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