Blackness
Blackness is an area of the city of Dundee. Broadly, Blackness is located to the north of the city's West End and is centred on the Blackness Road, where a number of small, local shops are located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 2,570 residents
- Description: area in Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Blackness, Dundee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dudhope Castle and Verdant Works.
Dudhope Castle
Castle
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Dudhope Castle is an extended late medieval tower house located on the southern face of Dundee Law in Dundee, Scotland.
Verdant Works
Museum
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Verdant Works, also known as Scotland's Jute Museum, is a former jute mill in the Blackness area of Dundee, Scotland. It was purchased in 1991 by the Dundee Heritage Trust.
Dundee Synagogue
Synagogue
Dundee Synagogue is a former Jewish synagogue, located on St Mary Place, Dundee, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. From 1978 until its closure in 2019, the building was the place of worship of the Tayside and Fife Jewish Community, which was established in 1878 under its former name of the Dundee Hebrew Congregation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West End and Logie.
West End
Suburb
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The West End is an area of Dundee, Scotland. Bordered to the south by the River Tay, to the north by Blackness and to the east by the city centre, the West End is primarily an affluent residential area surrounding its main commercial thoroughfare, Perth Road, and the main campus of the University of Dundee.
Logie
Suburb
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Logie is a residential area of Dundee, Scotland, located around 2 kilometres west of the city centre and forming part of the city’s West End ward. The district is best known for the Logie Housing Estate, built between 1919 and 1920 as the first public housing estate in Scotland constructed after the First World War, notable for its innovative design and early district heating scheme.
Dundee
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Dundee is an industrial city and port, historically part of Angus county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.
Blackness
- Category: locality
- Location: Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.46051° or 56° 27′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.99051° or 2° 59′ 26″ westPopulation
2,570Open location code
9C8VF265+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1404495983OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q4923187
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Chinese—“Blackness” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blackness”
- Chinese: “布萊克内斯”
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