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Quartermile

Edinburgh, Scotland

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Lauriston 0.2 milesTollcross 0.4 milesOld Town 0.4 milesSouthside 0.4 milesSciennes 0.5 milesPleasance 0.5 milesSt Leonards 0.6 milesMarchmont 0.6 miles
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90 places within 15 miles

Days out & attractions in Quartermile

Days out around Quartermile – hills, nature reserves, museums, parks and more, including 9 in Quartermile itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.

⛰️ Hills & peaks1🌿 Nature reserves1🏛️ Museums12🌳 Parks & gardens3🗿 Monuments & memorials45🖼️ Galleries7📸 Landmarks & sights17🛝 Playgrounds4

Days out

⛰️ Hills & peaks

⛰️ Peak

Castle Rock

Lauriston · 0.6 miles · 130 m above sea level

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Days out

🌿 Nature reserves

🌿 Nature reserve

Johnston Terrace Garden

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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Days out

🏛️ Museums

🏛️ Museum

Anatomical Museum

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

Sa[-1] 10:00-16:00; Jun-Jul off

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🏛️ Museum

National Museum of Scotland

Old Town · 0.1 miles

Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF

+44300 123 6789

Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; Jan 01 12:00-17:00; Dec 25 off; Dec 26 12:00-17:00

♿ Wheelchair accessibleFree entry
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🏛️ Museum

Talbot Rice Gallery

Pleasance · 0.6 miles

South Bridge

+44 131 650 2210

Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00

♿ Wheelchair accessibleFree entry
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🏛️ Museum

Prisoners of War Museum

Lauriston · 0.6 miles

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

The Royal Scots Regimental Museum

Lauriston · 0.6 miles

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

Writers' Museum

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Lady Stair's Close, Edinburgh EH1 2PA

Mo-Su 10:00-17:00

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

Surgeons' Hall Museums

Pleasance · 0.6 miles

Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW

+44 131 527 1711

Mo-Su 10:00-17:00

♿ Wheelchair accessibleAdmission charge
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🏛️ Museum

Museum on the Mound

Old Town · 0.6 miles

The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ

+44 131 243 5464

Mo,Su off; Tu-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa,PH 13:00-17:00

♿ Wheelchair accessibleFree entry
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🏛️ Museum

National War Museum

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

Apr-Sep: Mo-Su 09:45-17:45; Oct-Mar: Mo-Su 09:45-16:45

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

One O'Clock Gun Exhibition

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

Free entry
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🏛️ Museum

St Cecilia's Hall

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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Days out

🌳 Parks & gardens

🌳 Park

The Meadows

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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🌳 Park

Bruntsfield Links

Marchmont · 0.6 miles

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🌳 Park

West Princes Street Gardens

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Jan 01-Mar 24: 07:00-18:00; Mar 25-Apr 21: 07:00-19:00; Apr 22-May 26: 07:00-20:00; May 27-Aug 25: 07:00-22:00; Aug 26-Sep 22: 07:00-20:00; Sep 23-Oct 27: 07:00-19:00; Oct 28-Dec 31: 07:00-18:00

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Days out

🗿 Monuments & memorials

🗿 Monument

Millennium Stone

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

Laid in 2000 to commemorate the Meadows Millennium Park status

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🗿 Monument

Masons' Pillars

Lauriston · 0.1 miles

Figurine of a unicorn rampant atop a stone column

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🗿 Monument

Masons' Pillars

Lauriston · 0.1 miles

Figurine of a unicorn rampant atop a stone column

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🗿 Monument

Susanna MacIver Inscription

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Inscription about Mrs Susanna MacIver (1770s) who had a cookery school here and created the first ever printed recipe for haggis in Scotland

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🗿 Monument

Spanish Civil War Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Memorial to the Scots of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War

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🗿 Monument

David McGregor Memorial

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Mary Erskine Memorial

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

War Memorial

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

War Memorial

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

James Borthwick Monument

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Helen Acquroff Memorial Fountain

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Skene & Aitkenhead Memorial

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Prince Albert Victor Sundial

Lauriston · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Greyfriars Bobby

Old Town · 0.1 miles

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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🗿 Monument

McEwan Lantern Pillar

Quartermile · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Zeppelin Airship L14 Bomb Crater Memorial

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Martyrs' Monument

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Grassmarket 500th Anniversary Stone

Lauriston · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

Covenanters' Memorial

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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🗿 Monument

William Chambers Statue

Old Town · 0.1 miles

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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🗿 Monument

W.H. Playfair Statue

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Gordon Highlanders - South African War

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Princess Louise's Argyllshire Highlanders War Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Brassfounders Column

Pleasance · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

78th Highlanders Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Colonel Mackenzie Statue

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Scottish Horse Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Frederick, Duke of York Statue

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

72nd Highlanders Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Memorial To Ensign Ewart

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Scottish National War Memorial

Lauriston · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Scottish War Poets' War Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Charles II of England

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

David Hume Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Fifth Duke of Buccleuch Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

John Knox Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

52 Infantry Brigade Operation Herrick 7 Memorial

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

James Braidwood Statue

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Mercat Cross

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Black Watch Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Adam Smith Statue

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Stone of Remembrance

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Earl Haig

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

The Workers Memorial Tree

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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🗿 Monument

Holocaust Memorial

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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Days out

📸 Landmarks & sights

📸 Landmark

Greyfriars Kirk

Old Town · 0.1 miles

Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ

+44 131 225 1900

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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📸 Landmark

West Bow Well

Old Town · 0.1 miles

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📸 Landmark

The Cadies and Witchery Tours

Old Town · 0.6 miles

West Bow 84, Edinburgh EH1 2HH

Admission charge
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📸 Landmark

The Scotch Whisky Experience

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Castlehill 354, Edinburgh EH1 2NE

+44 131 220 0441

♿ Wheelchair accessibleAdmission charge
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📸 Landmark

Camera Obscura & World of Illusions

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Castlehill 549, Edinburgh EH1 2ND

+44 131 226 3709

08:00-22:00

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📸 Landmark

Old College

Pleasance · 0.6 miles

South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Mo-Su 08:00-21:30

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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📸 Landmark

Gatehouse

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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📸 Landmark

Gladstone's Land

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Lawnmarket 477B, Edinburgh EH1 2NT

Admission charge
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📸 Landmark

Spirit of Scotland

Pleasance · 0.6 miles

+44 131 618 9899

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📸 Landmark

St Giles' Cathedral

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 1RE

Apr-Oct Mo-Fr 10:00-18:00; Apr-Oct Sa 09:00-17:00; Apr-Oct,Nov-Mar Su 13:00-17:00; Nov-Mar Mo-Sa 09:00-17:00

♿ Wheelchair accessible
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📸 Landmark

Edinburgh Castle

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

Castlehill, Edinburgh EH1 2NG

+44 131 225 9846

Apr 01-Sep 30 09:30-18:00; Oct 01-Dec 23,Dec 27-31,Jan 02-Mar 31 09:30-17:00; Dec 24 09:30-16:00; Jan 01 11:00-17:00; Dec 25-26 off

Admission charge
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📸 Landmark

Mons Meg

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

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📸 Landmark

The Real Mary King's Close

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Warriston’s Close 2, Edinburgh EH1 1PG

Mo-Su 09:00-17:45

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📸 Landmark

Blair Street Underground Vaults

Old Town · 0.6 miles

Blair Street 28, Edinburgh EH1 1QR

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📸 Landmark

One O'Clock Gun

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

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📸 Landmark

Edinburgh Farmers' Market

The Exchange · 0.6 miles

Sa 09:00-14:00

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📸 Landmark

Tron Kirk Market

Old Town · 0.6 miles

High Street 122, Edinburgh EH1 1QS

10:00-18:00

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Days out

🛝 Playgrounds

🛝 Playground

Magnet Play Area

Southside · 0.6 miles

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🛝 Playground

Playpark

Tollcross · 0.6 miles

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🛝 Playground

Football area

Tollcross · 0.6 miles

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🛝 Playground

Royal Mile Nursery

Old Town · 0.6 miles

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Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from Quartermile.

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