Whinny Hill
Whinny Hill is a peak in Edinburgh, Scotland and has an elevation of 584 feet. Whinny Hill is situated nearby to the suburb Willowbrae, as well as near the locality Hutton’s Section.Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and National Museum of Scotland.
Edinburgh Castle
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, 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.
National Museum of Scotland
Museum
Photo: Maccoinnich, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum, with international collections covering science and technology, natural history, and world cultures.
Arthur’s Seat
Peak
Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arthur's Seat is an ancient extinct volcano that is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.
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".
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.
Leith
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Leith is the historic port of Edinburgh 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.
Whinny Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 584 feet
- Description: hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9481° or 55° 56′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.1576° or 3° 9′ 28″ westElevation
584 feet (178 metres)Open location code
9C7RWRXR+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 390980594OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q12955835
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In Other Languages
“Whinny Hill” goes by many names.
- Piemontese: “Whinny Hill”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Holyrood Park and Dunsapie Loch.
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