Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 7.5 km
Ascend 82 m
Descend 108 m

Explore City of Edinburgh in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in City of EdinburghIndividual Sights in City of Edinburgh

Sight 1: RBGE Inverleith House

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Inverleith House is a historic house, now within the Royal Botanic Garden, in the suburb of Inverleith, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Wikipedia: Inverleith House (EN)

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

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The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation, as well as a popular tourist attraction. Founded in 1670 as a physic garden to grow medicinal plants, today it occupies four sites across Scotland—Edinburgh, Dawyck, Logan and Benmore—each with its own specialist collection. The RBGE's living collection consists of more than 13,302 plant species, whilst the herbarium contains in excess of 3 million preserved specimens.

Wikipedia: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (EN), Website

1852 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 3: Quintinshill Rail Disaster Memorial

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Quintinshill Rail Disaster Memorial

The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history.

Wikipedia: Quintinshill rail disaster (EN)

494 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Rosebank Cemetery

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Rosebank Cemetery is a 19th-century cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the junction of Pilrig Street and Broughton Road in the Pilrig area, close to the historical boundary of Leith. The cemetery is protected as a category C listed building.

Wikipedia: Rosebank Cemetery (EN)

1311 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 5: North Leith Parish Church

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North Leith Parish Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland, within the Presbytery of Edinburgh. It serves part of Leith, formerly an independent burgh and since 1920 a part of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Wikipedia: North Leith Parish Church (EN)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Leith Theatre

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Leith Theatre is a theatre located on Ferry Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. It opened in 1932 and ceased operation in 1988. Following the efforts of Leith Theatre Trust, fundraising and campaigning is currently underway to support Leith Theatre's redevelopment and eventual full reopening as an arts and community venue.

Wikipedia: Leith Theatre (EN), Website

1508 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 7: Cables Wynd House

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Cables Wynd HouseTom Parnell from Scottish Borders, Scotland / CC BY-SA 2.0

Cables Wynd House, better known as the Leith Banana Flats or the Banana Block because of its curved shape, is a nine-storey local authority housing block in Leith, Edinburgh. The building, in fact, has ten storeys. The ground floor is called Cables Wynd and the nine floors above constitute Cables Wynd House. This often leads to confusion in postal and other services.

Wikipedia: Cables Wynd House (EN), Listed_url

421 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Lamb's House

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Lamb's House is a historic A-listed building in Leith, a northern district of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, which has served as both a place of residence and warehouse. The present house is an example of early-17th-century architecture typical of harbour towns around the North Sea.

Wikipedia: Lamb's House (EN)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: St Mary's Star of the Sea Church

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St Mary Star of the Sea (Leith) Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated on Constitution Street in the Leith district and staffed by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Wikipedia: St Mary's Star of the Sea Church, Leith (EN)

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Trinity House

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Trinity House, 99 Kirkgate, is a building in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, which was a guild hall, customs house, and centre for maritime administration and poor relief. In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era it also served as an almshouse and hospital. Now in state care, it houses a maritime museum. It is a category A listed building.

Wikipedia: Trinity House of Leith (EN)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: South Leith Parish Church

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South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island. The church has been repaired, used as an ammunition store and reconstructed but still retains the basic layout of the nave of the old church.

Wikipedia: South Leith Parish Church (EN), Website

983 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 12: Leith Links East

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Leith Links is the principal open space within Leith, the docks district of Edinburgh, Scotland. This public park is divided by a road into two main areas, a western section and an eastern section, both being largely flat expanses of grass bordered by mature trees. Historically it covered a wider area extending north as far as the shoreline of the Firth of Forth. This area of grass and former sand-dunes was previously used as a golf links.

Wikipedia: Leith Links (EN)

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