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Edinburgh: New Town Church

Edinburgh: The New Town Church of Scotland serves 's , in . It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland, formed on 1 February 2024 by the union of St Andrew's & St George's West and Greenside Church.
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  • Email: info@edinburghnewtownchurch.org.uk
  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Church of Scotland
  • Description: church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh: The New Town Church of Scotland”, “New Town Church”, “St Andrew’s and St George’s West”, “St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church”, and “St Andrew’s Church, Edinburgh”
  • Address: 15-17 George Street, Edinburgh

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scott Monument.

Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 2,200 feet southwest of Edinburgh: New Town Church.

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 820 feet southeast of Edinburgh: New Town Church.

Art gallery
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, . Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. is situated 690 feet northeast of Edinburgh: New Town Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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.

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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".

Neighborhood
, once an ancient village, has been part of since 1809. The village is most likely to have taken its name from mills erected to smelt and refine silver ore which had been found at Hilderstone in in 1607 or, alternatively, from some of the alchemical projects of James IV or James V.

Edinburgh: New Town Church

Latitude
55.95407° or 55° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.19586° or 3° 11′ 45″ west
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 81243762
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­church_of_scotland
Wiki­data ID
Q7592411
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In Other Languages

“Edinburgh: New Town Church” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “圣安得烈圣乔治教堂”

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