Holy Rood High School
Holy Rood High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated on the edge of Holyrood Park, near Arthur's Seat beside Duddingston Village, in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is about half a mile a way from Castlebrae Community High School.- Email: admin@holyrood.edin.sch.uk
- Type: School
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Holy Rood High School, Edinburgh” and “Holy Rood RC High School”
- Postal code: EH15 3ST
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Arthur’s Seat and Duddingston Kirk.
Arthur’s Seat
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 Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".
Duddingston Kirk
Church
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Duddingston Kirk is a Parish Church in the Church of Scotland, located adjacent to Holyrood Park in Duddingston Village, on the east side of the City of Edinburgh. Regular services are held at the kirk. Duddingston Kirk is situated 1,300 feet west of Holy Rood High School.
Holyrood Park
Park
Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holyrood Park is a public park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about 1 mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. 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. Holyrood Park is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Holy Rood High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Duddingston and Craigmillar.
Duddingston
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Duddingston Village is a historic conservation village in east Edinburgh, situated beside Holyrood Park and Duddingston Loch. It is characterised by a high concentration of traditional and period homes and is widely regarded as an affluent area.
Craigmillar
Suburb
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Craigmillar is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and Newcraighall to the east.
Niddrie Mains
Neighborhood
Niddrie is a residential suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated in the south-east of the city, south-west of the seaside area of Portobello, and west of Musselburgh in East Lothian near Fort Kinnaird retail park.
Holy Rood High School
- Categories: secondary school, Catholic school, and education
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.94123° or 55° 56′ 28″ northLongitude
-3.14287° or 3° 8′ 34″ westOperator
City of Edinburgh CouncilOpen location code
9C7RWVR4+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 29256132OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q5885978
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In Other Languages
“Holy Rood High School” goes by many names.
- French: “Holy Rood High School Edinburgh”
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