Hawkhill Wood

Hawkhill Wood is a deciduous forest in , . Hawkhill Wood is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the suburb .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arthur’s Seat and Craigmillar Castle.

Peak
Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arthur's Seat is an ancient extinct volcano that is the main peak of the group of hills in , , which form most of , described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".

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is a ruined medieval castle in , . It is three miles south-east of the city centre, on a low hill to the south of the modern suburb of .

Park
Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public park in central , Scotland about 1 mile to the east of . It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse, providing a wild piece of highland landscape within its 650-acre area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Edinburgh and Old Town.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of . It's a sprawl of residential and industrial districts, and the only two parts of interest to visitors are Portobello beach resort and the hamlet of Duddingston.

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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".

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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.

Hawkhill Wood

Latitude
55.9279° or 55° 55′ 41″ north
Longitude
-3.1369° or 3° 8′ 13″ west
Open location code
9C7RWVH7+56
Open­Street­Map ID
way 243666168
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
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