Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK )
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK )
Edinburgh is Scotland's compact, hilly capital. It has a medieval Old Town and elegant Georgian New Town with gardens and neoclassical buildings. Looming over the city is Edinburgh Castle, home to Scotland’s crown jewels and the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish rulers. Arthur’s Seat is an imposing peak in Holyrood Park with sweeping views, and Calton Hill is topped with monuments and memorials.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 local government council areas. Located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore, Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is home to the Scottish Parliament and the seat of the monarchy in Scotland. The city is also the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. It is the largest financial centre in the UK after London.
Historically part of Midlothian, the city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, was placed 17th in the QS World University Rankings in 2013 and 2014. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. The city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination after London, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town, built in the 18th century. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999.
Situated in Scotland's Central Belt, Edinburgh lies on the Firth of Forth's southern shore. The city centre is 2 1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) southwest of the shoreline of Leith and 26 miles (42 km) inland, as the crow flies, from the east coast of Scotland and the North Sea at Dunbar.[56] While the early burgh grew up near the prominent Castle Rock, the modern city is often said to be built on seven hills, namely Calton Hill, Corstorphine Hill, Craiglockhart Hill, Braid Hill, Blackford Hill, Arthur's Seat and the Castle Rock
Edinburgh Airport is Scotland's busiest and biggest airport and the principal international gateway to the capital, handling around 11 million passengers in 2015. Travel in Edinburgh is undertaken predominantly by bus. Lothian Buses operate the majority of city bus services within the city and to surrounding suburbs, with the most routes running via Princes Street. Services further afield operate from the Edinburgh Bus Station off St Andrew Square and Waterloo Place and are operated mainly by Stagecoach, Scottish Citylink, National Express Coaches, First Scotland East & Perryman's Buses. Edinburgh Waverley Station is the second-busiest railway station in Scotland, with only Glasgow Central handling more passengers.
Alot to see in ( Edinburgh - UK ) such as
Holyrood Palace
Arthur's Seat
HMY Britannia
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Mary King's Close
Princes Street Gardens
Camera Obscura
Scottish National Gallery
St Giles' Cathedral
Holyrood Park
Princes Street
Edinburgh Castle
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Our Dynamic Earth
Scott Monument
The Georgian House, Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Surgeons' Hall
Edinburgh Zoo
Museum of Childhood
Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Inchcolm
Water of Leith
Inchcolm Abbey
Craigmillar Castle
Scottish Parliament Building
Gladstone's Land
Museum of Edinburgh
John Knox House
National War Museum
Holyrood Abbey
Greyfriars Kirk
National Monument of Scotland
Pentland Hills
Greyfriars Kirkyard
Murrayfield Stadium
Fruitmarket Gallery
Heart of Midlothian
Kirk of the Canongate
Dean Gallery
Royal Scottish Academy Building
Blackford Hill
Calton Hill
Dean Village
Writers' Museum
The Canongate
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
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Top 10 Isle of Skye - What to See on The Isle of Skye, Scotland
Visit the Isle of Skye. Portree, Kilt Rock, Dunvegan Castle and so much more. The Isle of Skye is one of my favorite parts of Scotland and all of Great Britain. Here we cover the top tourists destinations on the Isle of Skye for travelers. Feel like travelling to the Isle of Skye? This will give you what to see, what to do and some other tips about visiting the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
filmed on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Copyright Mark Wolters 2010 and 2013
Some Tips, Advice & Information on Visiting the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
1. Book Your Accommodation & Dinner Reservations Early - The Island gets booked up quickly in the high season so you may need to stay off island in Plockton.
2. Rent a Car - To see all that the Isle of Skye has to offer you must have your own car.
3. Visit the Slate Peninsula
4. Visit Dunvegan Castle.
5. Visit Portree the Capital of the Isle of Skye and Home to the ATM (Cashpoint).
6. Check Out the Waterfalls along the coasts.
7. Visit Kilt Rock - A sheer cliff that looks just like a kilt.
8. The Old Man of Storr - a very phallic looking stone rock.
9. Local Producers: Lots of Wool Weavers and Distilleries.
10. Hiking in the Cullen Hills.
11. Eileen Dolan Castle - From numerous movies and just outside the Isle of Skye.
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Places to see in ( Wedmore - UK )
Places to see in ( Wedmore - UK )
Wedmore is a village and civil parish in the county of Somerset, England. It is situated on raised ground, in the Somerset Levels between the River Axe and River Brue, often called the Isle of Wedmore. It forms part of Sedgemoor district. The parish consists of three main villages: Wedmore, Blackford and Theale, with 14 hamlets including Bagley, Cocklake, Mudgley, Panborough and Sand. Wedmore has a population of 3,318 according to the 2011 census.
Its facilities include a medical and dental practice, pharmacy, butcher's, a village store with off licence, three pubs, restaurant, café and several other local shops. It is located 4 miles (6 km) south of Cheddar, 7 miles (11 km) west of the city of Wells and 7 miles (11 km) north west of Glastonbury.
The name Wedmore in Old English probably means hunting lodge and there was a Saxon royal estate in the area. Centwine gained control of the area in 682 and named it 'Vadomaer' after one of the Saxon leaders Vado the famous. After winning the Battle of Ethandun, Alfred the Great caused the Viking leader Guthrum and his followers to be baptised at Aller and then celebrated at Wedmore. After this the Vikings withdrew to East Anglia.
The Treaty of Wedmore is a term used by historians for an event referred to by the monk Asser in his Life of Alfred, outlining how in 878 the Viking leader Guthrum accepted Alfred the Great as his adoptive father. No such treaty still exists but there is a document that is not specifically linked to Wedmore that is a Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum. Alfred then left Wedmore to his son Edward the Elder. Wedmore was part of the hundred of Bempstone. Earthworks from a complex of buildings, including a hall and chapel, surrounded by a moat have been identified. The site is believed to have been a bishops palace demolished by John Harewel in the 1380s.
It is situated on raised ground, in the Somerset Levels between the River Axe and River Brue, often called the Isle of Wedmore, which is composed of Blue Lias and marl. South of Wedmore are the Tealham and Tadham Moors, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest which form part of the extensive grazing marsh and ditch systems of the Somerset Levels and Moors. The water table is high throughout the greater part of the year with winter flooding occurring annually, by over-topping of the River Brue.
Historically, and apart from school services, Wedmore has been poorly served. The first regularly-timed daily bus service began in the mid-1980s — a regular service between Wells to the east and Burnham-on-Sea to the west. There is also a service between Glastonbury to the south-east and Shipham via Cheddar to the north.
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Street Art London (UK) documentary - Episode 1: Intro to Shoreditch
Street art is the most spontaneous form of contemporary art nowadays. In this episode, we explore some of main artists and their works around London. We start in Star Yard, a car park with one of the highest concentration of art in London. We explore how some artists have followed Banksy, making strong political messages with their works, while others focused more on the communities around. Follow us in this journey
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ARTISTS (in order of appearance)
Amara Por Dios
Mr Cenz
Dreph
Carleen De Sozer
Fanakapan
Orbit
Dale Grimshaw
Tom Blackford
Banksy
Thierry Noir
Otto Schade
Subude
Zabou
Jana & JS
C215
Nils Westergard
Ben Slow
Stik
Antcarver
Pyramid Oracle
Dan Kitchener
Gregos
Urbansolid
Borondo
Visit Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (4K)
Visit Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (4K)
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EDINBURGH is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. It is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the supreme courts of Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the Monarchy in Scotland. Historically part of the county of Midlothian, the city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering. It is the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year.
Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The official population estimates are 464,990 (2012) for the Locality of Edinburgh (Edinburgh pre 1975 regionalisation plus Currie and Balerno), 507,170 (2016) for the City of Edinburgh, and 1,339,380 (2014) for the city region. Edinburgh lies at the heart of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region comprising East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, was placed 23rd in the QS World University Rankings in 2018. The city is also famous for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town, built in the 18th century. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999.
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Edinburgh, the Capital of Scotland
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland located in the Central Belt region of the country. It manages to combine both ancient and modern in a uniquely Scottish atmosphere. Watched over by the imposing Edinburgh castle, the symbol of the city, Edinburgh combines medieval relics, Georgian grandeur and a powerful layer of modern life with contemporary avant-garde.
Edinburgh is on the east coast of Scotland's central Lowlands, situated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh's landscape is the product of ancient volcanism and more recent glaciation.
In Edinburgh, medieval palaces, evident throughout the New Town which is painted with Gothic churches and fascinating historical buildings, rub shoulders with the best of modern architecture, such as the Houses of Scottish Parliament and the recently renovated National Museum of Scotland.
Scotland's throbbing night-life centre, Edinburgh, the Athens of the North, is also a feast for the mind and the senses, playing host to great restaurants, shops, friendly pubs, wild and mild clubs, and an unrivalled programme of city festivals throughout the year. Hogmanay, the Scottish New Year, kicks off the festivities, which culminate in the high summer with the Tattoo, the International and the famous 'Fringe' festival, among many others.
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh were listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1995. In 2004, Edinburgh became the first member of the UNESCO Creative Cities initiative when it was designated a City of Literature. In a 2009 poll by YouGov, Edinburgh was voted the most desirable city to live in the UK.
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Road Trip Drive From Dunblane To Perth Perthshire Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, from the High Street in Dunblane, East on the A9 major road with side trips through Blackford, Gleneagles, Auchterarder and Aberuthven all the way into Perth on ancestry visit to Perthshire. The A9 is a major road running from the Falkirk council area in central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness
A week in London in time-lapse as seen from The Monument in 360 degrees. A unique view of the city.
Please watch at full screen and at 720p/1080p if you can.
I created this unique time-lapse video from a total of around 10,000 photographs taken from the live Monument webcam.
The Monument webcam is a special 360 degree webcam that updates every 60 seconds.
I have only just got around to creating this video even though I had the frames for over two years on my hard disk.
My video is rendered at 1080p and needs to be played in fullscreen due to the letterbox aspect ratio otherwise you will not be able to see all the little details.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known as The Monument, is a 202 foot tall stone Roman Doric column in the City of London, England.
Its located where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It was constructed between 1671 and 1677, it is the tallest isolated stone column in the world!
The monument closed in July 2007 for an 18-month, £4.5 million refurbishment project and re-opened in February 2009. A special live 360 degree webcam was then fitted
to the top of the Monument. Based on a Kaidan VR360 with a Canon EOS 1D Mk3.
My time-lapse video is made from the 360 panorama's taken by this equipment.
Music - Repercussions Of 7th Heaven by 808Chunk
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Used under creative commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Points of interest - If you watch this video in Full Screen mode at 720 then you will keep spotting new things, here are some you may have missed
01:19 to 01:29 - The Moon rising on left and travelling across sky.
01:50 - Window cleaning gantry going up and down on the brown building about 35% across from left of panorama.
02:08 - Tower Bridge lifting. It can be seen lifting several times in my video.
If you spot something of interest let me know the time-code.
When was the week of recording?:
Monday 6th July 2009 to Monday 13th July 2009
First frame captured at noon on the 6th.
Frames were captured every 60 seconds for a whole week and then played in sequence.
The frames were captured using a CRON job on a Linux machine.
The images are 1024 x 240 pixels and cover a full 360 degree view of London from the top of The Monument.
I had to go through thousands of frames and delete all the corrupt ones, these are images that contain vivid colours due to jpeg corruption. I'm guessing this happened due to the images being
sent by Wi-Fi from the camera?
I may have missed the odd corrupt image in my video but I think I caught most of them.
Map Location:
Google Streetview:
Here you can see the Monument captured during restoration as seen from Monument Street with its junction with Pudding Lane.
Here you can see the Monument captured after restoration work was completed.
Fish Street Hill
I discovered this unusual situation. In this Google Streetview you can see the Monument wrapped up during restoration but then you move forward two steps
and the restoration work is fully completed!. I guess they must have driven this bit of road in two parts.
The 360 degree Panoramic webcam:
There is a very detailed explanation of this camera system on the website here.
The equipment :
The Monument to the Great Fire of London reopened after a £4.5m restoration which took 18 months. Here is a short video by the BBC:
Note:
This webcam seems to have stopped working as of August 12th 2011, It keeps showing the same image. I have contacted them
about this but not had a reply. I hope they get it up and running again soon.
Live webcam :
The Monument is open Daily: 09.30 - 17.30 (last admission) 17.00
Admission Prices:
Adults £3.00
Concessions: £2.00
Child: £1.50
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Ten Hill Place Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ten Hill Place Hotel in Edinburgh is one of the capital's premier city centre hotels.
From airy public places to each of our 78 smart bedrooms, the mood of Ten Hill Place Hotel is one of quiet sophistication, and one we believe sets us apart from other Edinburgh hotels.
So if you are looking for Edinburgh city centre hotels, be sure to make Ten Hill Place your first destination and an address we hope you will come back to again and again!
Edinburgh's architecture and scenic viewpoints
Peggy talks about Edinburgh's vantage points such as Blackford Hill and architectural features such as the Scottish Poetry Library.