George Street (The Dome)

George Street (The Dome) is a bus stop in , . George Street (The Dome) is situated nearby to , as well as near .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scott Monument.

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 2,100 feet southwest of George Street (The Dome).

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 680 feet southeast of George Street (The Dome).

Art gallery
The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. is situated 1,000 feet south of George Street (The Dome).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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.

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".

Neighborhood
, once an ancient village, has been part of since 1809. The village is most likely to have taken its name from mills erected to smelt and refine silver ore which had been found at Hilderstone in in 1607 or, alternatively, from some of the alchemical projects of James IV or James V.

George Street (The Dome)

Latitude
55.95367° or 55° 57′ 13″ north
Longitude
-3.19565° or 3° 11′ 44″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR33+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 502533469
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­platform
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