Robert Garioch Sutherland
Robert Garioch Sutherland is a memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert Garioch Sutherland is situated nearby to Queen Street Gardens East, as well as near the community center The Royal Scots Club.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Edinburgh Castle.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Art gallery
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. Scottish National Portrait Gallery is situated 750 feet southeast of Robert Garioch Sutherland.
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 3,100 feet south of Robert Garioch Sutherland.
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 south of Robert Garioch Sutherland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Town and Bellevue.
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.
Bellevue
Neighborhood
Bellevue is a district of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the south east of Canonmills, west of Leith Walk and south of Leith, incorporating the easternmost extent of Edinburgh's New Town UNESCO heritage site.
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.
Robert Garioch Sutherland
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Robert Garioch Sutherland Makar 1909-1981 Bade Here. These twa-three chuckie-stanes I lay on Scotland’s cairn”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.95678° or 55° 57′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.19645° or 3° 11′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C7RXR43+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 6501770293OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Highlights include Queen Street Gardens East and The Royal Scots Club.
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