Queen Street Gardens East

Queen Street Gardens East is a garden in , . Access is restricted and requires permission. Queen Street Gardens East is situated nearby to the government office , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Edinburgh Castle.

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 570 feet east of Queen Street Gardens East.

Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 2,800 feet south of Queen Street Gardens East.

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 1,400 feet southeast of Queen Street Gardens East.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Bellevue.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
is a district of , the capital of . It lies to the south east of , west of Leith Walk and south of , incorporating the easternmost extent of Edinburgh's UNESCO heritage site.

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.

Queen Street Gardens East

Latitude
55.95587° or 55° 57′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.19627° or 3° 11′ 47″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR43+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 116711336
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
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