Waverley Bridge

Waverley Bridge is a road bridge in linking Market Street and Cockburn Street in the with in the . The bridge forms part of the roof of station and marks the eastern boundary of .
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Also known as: “Waverley Bridge, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station and Scott Monument.

Railway station
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Edinburgh Waverley is the principal railway station serving , Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after . The station serves as the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, 393 miles 13 chains from , although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh.

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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 440 feet northwest of Waverley Bridge.

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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 2,100 feet southwest of Waverley Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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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.

Neighborhood
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is the marketing name given to the mixed use redevelopment of the former site, in , . It was master-planned by architect Foster + Partners and takes its name from the fact it is a quarter mile from Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile and measures a quarter mile from corner to corner.

Waverley Bridge

Latitude
55.95156° or 55° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.19165° or 3° 11′ 30″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR25+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 377738788
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Wiki­data ID
Q25350037
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Korean—“Waverley Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Waverley zubia”
  • Chinese: “威瓦利桥”
  • Dutch: “Waverley Bridge”
  • Korean: “웨이벌리 브릿지”

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