Melville’s Monument

Melville’s Monument is a monument in , . Melville’s Monument is situated nearby to , as well as near the garden .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Andrew Square and Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Garden
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a garden square in , Scotland, located at the east end of George Street. The construct of began in 1772, as the first part of the , designed by James Craig.

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 460 feet north of Melville’s Monument.

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 680 feet south of Melville’s Monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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.

Photo: PerryPlanet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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".

Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area of , . was an ancient feudal barony that existed outside of Edinburgh before it was later incorporated into the city as urban development took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Melville’s Monument

Latitude
55.95422° or 55° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.19316° or 3° 11′ 35″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR34+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 314597265
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
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