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The Mound

The Mound is an artificial slope and road in central , Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's and . It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Gallery and Edinburgh Castle.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on The Mound in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

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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 1,400 feet southwest of The Mound.

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 590 feet northeast of The Mound.

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".

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.

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.

The Mound

Latitude
55.95163° or 55° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.19585° or 3° 11′ 45″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR23+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5855666
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­pedestrian
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q2033510
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“The Mound” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “The Mound”
  • Belarusian: “Маўнд”
  • Catalan: “The Mound”
  • Chinese: “土丘”
  • Chinese: “墳丘”
  • Danish: “The Mound”
  • Dutch: “The Mound”
  • Faroese: “The Mound”
  • French: “The Mound”
  • German: “The Mound”
  • Hebrew: “המאונד”
  • Icelandic: “The Mound”
  • Irish: “Am Meall”
  • Italian: “The Mound”
  • Japanese: “ザ・マウンド”
  • Kalaallisut: “The Mound”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Mound”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “The Mound”
  • Norwegian: “The Mound”
  • Russian: “Маунд”
  • Scots: “The Mound”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Am Meall”
  • Swedish: “The Mound”
  • Ukrainian: “Маунд”
  • “Am Meall”
  • “The Mound”
  • “The Mound - Am Meall”

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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 “The Mound”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.