Queen Street Gardens Central

Queen Street Gardens Central is a garden in , . Access is restricted and requires permission. Queen Street Gardens Central is situated nearby to , as well as near the art gallery .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

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 2,400 feet south of Queen Street Gardens Central.

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 1,300 feet east of Queen Street Gardens Central.

Art gallery
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 1,800 feet southeast of Queen Street Gardens Central.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Silvermills.

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
, 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.

Neighborhood
Photo: Brian McNeil, CC BY 3.0.
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.

Queen Street Gardens Central

Latitude
55.95517° or 55° 57′ 19″ north
Longitude
-3.19992° or 3° 11′ 60″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR42+32
Open­Street­Map ID
way 116711337
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
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