Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is an university in , which is located on Queen Street. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is situated nearby to , as well as near the government office .
rcpe.ac.uk
  • Type: University
  • Also known as: “RCPE”
  • Address: 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh

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 2,400 feet south of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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 640 feet east of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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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 1,100 feet southeast of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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.

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Latitude
55.95488° or 55° 57′ 18″ north
Longitude
-3.19654° or 3° 11′ 48″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR33+X9
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sir Robert Sibbald Physic Garden and Edinburgh Theory Test Centre.

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