Ours Paddington
Ours Paddington is a work of art in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ours Paddington is situated nearby to the garden St Andrew Square, as well as near Melville Monument.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Andrew Square and Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
St Andrew Square
Garden
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew Square is a garden square in Edinburgh, Scotland located at the east end of George Street. The construct of St Andrew Square began in 1772, as the first part of the New Town, designed by James Craig.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Art gallery
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. Scottish National Portrait Gallery is situated 470 feet north of Ours Paddington.
Scott Monument
Photo: Schatir, Public domain.
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana. Scott Monument is situated 660 feet south of Ours Paddington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.
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.
Old Town
Photo: PerryPlanet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old Town is the original settlement of Edinburgh. 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".
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.
Ours Paddington
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork_type: sculpture
- Category: tourism
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95417° or 55° 57′ 15″ northLongitude
-3.19341° or 3° 11′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C7RXR34+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 12837272801OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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