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Holyrood Park

Holyrood Park 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.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: park in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Holyrood Park and Arthur’s Seat” and “The Queen’s Park”
  • Address: Queens Drive, Edinburgh, EH8 8HG

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Arthur’s Seat and Whinny Hill.

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 Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".

Peak
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a peak.

Lake
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a lake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holyrood and Dumbiedykes.

Neighborhood
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area in , the capital of , lying east of the city centre, at the foot of the . The area takes its name from , which was the Church of the Holy Rude. includes the following sites:…

Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Holyrood Park.

Suburb
is a suburb of in . It is best known for , a multi-purpose sports facility that opened as an international sports stadium in 1970.

Holyrood Park

Latitude
55.94564° or 55° 56′ 44″ north
Longitude
-3.16124° or 3° 9′ 41″ west
Inception
1541
Open location code
9C7RWRWQ+7G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 41663265
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Wiki­data ID
Q2640532
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Holyrood Park” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Holyrood Park”
  • Bavarian: “Holyrood Park”
  • Catalan: “Parc de Holyrood”
  • Chinese: “荷里路德公園”
  • Chinese: “霍利魯德公園”
  • Chinese: “霍利鲁德公园”
  • Danish: “Holyrood Park”
  • Dutch: “Holyrood Park”
  • French: “Holyrood Park”
  • German: “Holyrood Park”
  • Hebrew: “פארק הולירוד”
  • Italian: “King’s Park”
  • Italian: “Parco di Holyrood”
  • Italian: “Queen’s Park”
  • Japanese: “ホーリールード公園”
  • Japanese: “ホリールード・パーク”
  • Japanese: “ホリールード公園”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Holyrood Park”
  • Piemontese: “Parch Holyrood”
  • Polish: “Park Holyrood”
  • Scots: “Halyruid Pairk”
  • Spanish: “Holyrood Park”
  • Spanish: “Parque de Holyrood”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Holyrood Park”. Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.