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  2. Edinburgh Castle - Wikipedia

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    SM90130 [3] 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 at least the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633.

  3. Grassmarket - Wikipedia

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    The Grassmarket is located directly below Edinburgh Castle and forms part of one of the main east-west vehicle arteries through the city centre. It adjoins the Cowgatehead/Cowgate and Candlemaker Row at the east end, the West Bow (the lower end of Victoria Street in the north-east corner, King's Stables Road to the north-west, and the West Port to the west.

  4. List of castles in Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    Barnbougle Castle. Tower house. 1881. NT168784. There was a castle at Barnbougle as early as the 13th century, though this was replaced by "a plain 17th-century building". [1] The home of the Earl of Rosebery, Barnbougle was eventually replaced by nearby Dalmeny House in 1817. It was partially destroyed in an accidental explosion and left as a ...

  5. St Giles' Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    St Giles' Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-eaglais Naomh Giles), or the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Old Town of Edinburgh. The current building was begun in the 14th century and extended until the early 16th century; significant alterations were undertaken in the 19th and 20th centuries ...

  6. New Town, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    New Town, Edinburgh (Edinburgh) The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850, and retains much of its original neo-classical and Georgian period architecture. Its best known street is Princes Street, facing Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological ...

  7. West Port, Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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    Grassmarket. The West Port is a street in Edinburgh's Old Town, just south of Edinburgh Castle. It runs from Main Point (the junction of Bread Street, Lauriston Street, East Fountainbridge and High Riggs) to the southwest corner of the Grassmarket. The street takes its name from the westernmost of the "ports" or gates in the Flodden Wall.

  8. Royal Mile - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Mile (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mìle Rìoghail; Scots: Ryal Mile) [1] is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W. M. Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), describing the city "with its Castle and Palace and the ...

  9. Corstorphine - Wikipedia

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    Corstorphine (Scottish Gaelic: Crois Thoirfinn) (/ k ər ˈ s t ɔːr f ɪ n / kər-STOR-fin) is an area of the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh.Formerly a separate village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, it is now a suburb of the city, having been formally incorporated into it in 1920.