North Bridge

North Bridge is a road bridge and street in linking the with , and the with the . The current bridge was built between 1894 and 1897. A previous North Bridge, built between 1763 and 1772, stood until 1896.
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: bridge and street in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh, North Bridge” and “North Bridge, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station and Edinburgh Castle.

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. is situated 410 feet west of North 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 2,700 feet southwest of North Bridge.

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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 1,000 feet west of North Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and Dumbiedykes.

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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".

Suburb
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is a residential area in the centre of , . It mainly comprises public housing developments. It is bounded in the north by Holyrood Road, the west by the Pleasance and St Leonard's Street and the east by .

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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.

North Bridge

Latitude
55.95195° or 55° 57′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.18841° or 3° 11′ 18″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR26+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 380552925
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Wiki­data ID
Q3753005
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“North Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “North Bridge”
  • Chinese: “北桥”
  • Danish: “North Bridge (Edinburgh)”
  • Danish: “North Bridge”
  • Dutch: “North Bridge”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Ponto”
  • French: “North Bridge”
  • Russian: “Северный мост”
  • Spanish: “Puente del Norte”

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