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Regent Bridge

Regent Bridge is a road bridge in , , where the A1 road enters the from the east and passes over a hollow near Calton Hill. The bridge was built in the 19th century, in the neoclassical style as the was modernised and expanded to the north and east.
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Photo: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: arch bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh, Regent Bridge”, “Regent Bridge, Edinburgh”, and “The Regents Bridge”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Political Martyrs’ Monument and Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Political Martyrs Monument, located in the Old Calton Burial Ground on , , commemorates five political reformists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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 920 feet southwest of Regent Bridge.

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is a historic castle in , . 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 3,200 feet southwest of Regent 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.

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.

Regent Bridge

Latitude
55.95366° or 55° 57′ 13″ north
Longitude
-3.18723° or 3° 11′ 14″ west
Inception
1819
Open location code
9C7RXR37+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 556020946
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Wiki­data ID
Q7308076
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“Regent Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “摄政桥”
  • Czech: “Regent Bridge”
  • Czech: “Regentův most”
  • French: “Regent Bridge”

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Highlights include Edinburgh Bus Tours and Christian Science Reading Room;Scottish Science Reading Room.

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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 “Regent Bridge”. Photo: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0.