Hill Street (Frederick Street)

Hill Street (Frederick Street) is a bus stop in , . Hill Street (Frederick Street) is situated nearby to the hotel , as well as near the art gallery .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Gallery.

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 1,900 feet south of Hill Street (Frederick Street).

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 1,600 feet southeast of Hill Street (Frederick Street).

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 1,700 feet east of Hill Street (Frederick Street).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Moray Estate.

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.

Neighborhood
The , also known as the Moray Feu, is an early 19th century building venture attaching the west side of the . Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it has been described as a masterpiece of urban planning.

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.

Hill Street (Frederick Street)

Latitude
55.95392° or 55° 57′ 14″ north
Longitude
-3.20114° or 3° 12′ 4″ west
Open location code
9C7RXQ3X+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 502533623
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­platform
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