What To See Edinburgh
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Ann Street
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Assembly Hall
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Assembly Rooms
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Blackford Hill
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Braid Hills
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Calton Hill
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Camera Obscura
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Charlotte Square
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City Art Centre
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The Colonies
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Corstorphine
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Cowgate
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Craigmillar Castle
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Cramond
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Dean Village
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Duddingston
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Edinburgh Castle Museums
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Edinburgh Exchange
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Edinburgh's Festival Centre - The Hub
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Edinburgh Zoo
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George Street
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The Georgian House
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Gladstone's Land
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The Grassmarket
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Greyfriars Kirk
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Hanover Street
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The Heart of Midlothian
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Holyrood Abbey
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Holyrood Park
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Huntly House Museum
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John Knox's House
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Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
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The Lawnmarket
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Leith
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The Meadows
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Mercat Cross
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Morningside
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The Mound
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Murrayfield
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Museum of Childhood
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Parliament House
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Parliament Square
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The People's Story museum
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Princes Street
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Princes Street Gardens
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Queen Street
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Register House
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Royal High School
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Royal Scottish Academy
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Royal scottish Observatory
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The Royal Yacht Britannia
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St Andrew Square
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St Giles Cathedral
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St Mary's episcopal Cathedral
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Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre
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The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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The Scottish Parliament
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Stockbridge
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Swanston
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Talbot Rice Art Gallery
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The Tron Kirk
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The University of Edinburgh
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Victoria Street
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The Water of Leith
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Waterloo Place
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Waverley Market (princes mall)
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In The Know
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Swanston
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Worth Seeing
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Driving is the simplest way to get to Swanston, perhaps the prettiest of all Edinburgh's `villages' and barely part of the
city at all. Separated from the urban sprawl by the southern bypass and lying on the slopes of the Pentlands, the centre of
this conservation village has changed little since the 19th century. A group of thatched cottages clusters round the village
green together with the original 18th-century farmhouse and old school. Swanston is best known for its links with Robert Louis
Stevenson; he came to spend the summers here annually with his family and nurse from 1867 to 1880.
Address:
Swanston
Bus:
4, 27, 32, 52 followed by walk
Accessible:
Few
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