Tay Square

Tay Square is a square in Dundee City, Scotland. Tay Square is situated nearby to the theater building Dundee Rep, as well as near the university building The Scrymgeour Building, University of Dundee, Dundee.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee and Dundee Contemporary Arts.

St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee

Church

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The Cathedral Church of St Andrew is a Catholic cathedral in the West End of the city of Dundee, Scotland. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Dunkeld and mother church of the Diocese of Dunkeld within the Province of St Andrews and Edinburgh. St Andrew’s Cathedral, Dundee is situated 350 feet southeast of Tay Square.

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Arts center

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Dundee Contemporary Arts is an art centre in Dundee, Scotland, with two contemporary art galleries, a two-screen cinema, a print studio, a learning and public engagement programme, a shop and a café bar. The current director of the DCA is Beth Bate. Dundee Contemporary Arts is situated 390 feet southeast of Tay Square.

D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum

Museum

The D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum is a museum of zoology at the University of Dundee in Scotland. The museum is named after the Scottish biologist and mathematician D'Arcy Thompson, who founded it in the 1880s. D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum is situated 450 feet west of Tay Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dundee and Dundee city centre.

Dundee

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Dundee is an industrial city and port, historically part of Angus county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.

Dundee city centre

Suburb

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Until the Industrial Revolution, the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of Dundee, Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the A991 dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district.

Blackness

Suburb

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Blackness is an area of the city of Dundee. Broadly, Blackness is located to the north of the city's West End and is centred on the Blackness Road, where a number of small, local shops are located.

Tay Square

Type: Square
Category: locality
Location: Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.45793° or 56° 27′ 29″ north

Longitude

-2.97614° or 2° 58′ 34″ west

Open location code

9C8VF25F+5G

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1362656041

OpenStreetMap feature

place=square

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dundee Rep and The Scrymgeour Building, University of Dundee, Dundee.

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