Royal Scots Monument

Royal Scots Monument is a memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland. Royal Scots Monument is situated nearby to the memorial Allan Ramsay Monument, as well as near the garden Floral Clock.

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Type: Memorial
Description: memorial in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as: “Royal Scots Monument, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Gallery.

Edinburgh Castle

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Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, 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. Edinburgh Castle is situated 1,100 feet southwest of Royal Scots Monument.

Scottish National Gallery

Art gallery

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

The Mound

Square

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Mound is an artificial slope and road in central Edinburgh, Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's New and Old Towns. 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 Princes Street Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

Old Town

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Old Town is the original settlement of Edinburgh. 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".

New Town

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New Town of Edinburgh is 250 years old, in contrast to the Old Town 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.

Lauriston

Neighborhood

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lauriston is an area of central Edinburgh, Scotland, and home to a number of significant historic buildings. It lies south of Edinburgh Castle and the Grassmarket, and north of The Meadows public park.

Royal Scots Monument

Category: historic site
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.95109° or 55° 57′ 4″ north

Longitude

-3.19712° or 3° 11′ 50″ west

Inception

1952

Open location code

9C7RXR23+C5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 87686766

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

Wikidata ID

Q17795453

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Floral clock and Allan Ramsay Monument.

Nearby Places

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