Thistle Street

Thistle Street is a bus stop in , . Thistle Street is situated nearby to the art gallery , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

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is a historic castle in , Scotland. 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 2,200 feet south of Thistle Street.

Art gallery
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, . Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. is situated 960 feet northeast of Thistle Street.

Art gallery
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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 1,400 feet south of Thistle Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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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.

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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.

Thistle Street

Latitude
55.9544° or 55° 57′ 16″ north
Longitude
-3.19788° or 3° 11′ 52″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR32+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 502533490
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­platform
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