Hill Street (Frederick Street)
Hill Street (Frederick Street) is a bus stop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hill Street (Frederick Street) is situated nearby to the hotel Rabble, as well as near the art gallery Watson Gallery.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Gallery.
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. Edinburgh Castle is situated 1,900 feet south of Hill Street (Frederick Street).
Scottish National Gallery
Art gallery
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. Scottish National Gallery is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Hill Street (Frederick Street).
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 1,700 feet east of Hill Street (Frederick Street).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Town and Moray Estate.
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.
Moray Estate
Neighborhood
Photo: Brian McNeil, CC BY 3.0.
The Moray Estate, also known as the Moray Feu, is an early 19th century building venture attaching the west side of the New Town, Edinburgh. Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it has been described as a masterpiece of urban planning.
Silvermills
Neighborhood
Silvermills, once an ancient village, has been part of Edinburgh 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 Linlithgowshire in 1607 or, alternatively, from some of the alchemical projects of James IV or James V.
Hill Street (Frederick Street)
- Type: Bus stop
- Category: transportation
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95392° or 55° 57′ 14″ northLongitude
-3.20114° or 3° 12′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C7RXQ3X+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 502533623OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platform
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