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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sciennes


Visit Sciennes PlacesVisit Sciennes places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sciennes places to visit. A unique way to experience Sciennes’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sciennes as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Sciennes (pronounced sheenz, /ˈʃiːnz/) is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) south of the city centre. It is a mainly residential district, although it is also well-known as the site of the former Royal Hospital for Sick Children. When you visit Sciennes, Walkfo brings Sciennes places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Sciennes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sciennes


Visit Sciennes – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 470 audio plaques & Sciennes places for you to explore in the Sciennes area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sciennes places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Sciennes history


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The recorded history of Sciennes starts in the early 16th century, with the establishment of two religious houses. In 1512, Sir John Crawfurd, canon of St Giles, erected a chapel dedicated to St John the Baptist on land that had been part of the ancient Burgh Muir. Four years later, the Dominican Convent of St Catherine of Scienna was founded by a group of women, led by Lady Janet Seton, whose husbands and relatives had been killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The convent, which was completed in 1518, was the only Dominican Nunnery in Scotland.

Origins of street names

The Convent of St Catherine of Scienna gives its name to Sciennes itself and to several of its streets. Other streets in the district are named after notable figures of the day. Livingstone Place, for the explorer, David Livingstone; Gladstone Terrace, for William Ewart Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister.

Why visit Sciennes with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Sciennes PlacesYou can visit Sciennes places with Walkfo Sciennes to hear history at Sciennes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sciennes has 470 places to visit in our interactive Sciennes map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Sciennes, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Sciennes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sciennes & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 470 audio facts unique to Sciennes places in an interactive Sciennes map you can explore.”

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470 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo Sciennes tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Sciennes

  

Best Sciennes places to visit


Sciennes has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sciennes’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sciennes’s information audio spots:

Sciennes photo Holy Corner
Holy Corner is a colloquial name for a small area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is part of Burghmuirhead, itself part of the lands of Greenhill. Holy Corner lies between Bruntsfield and Morningside.
Sciennes photo Golfers Land
The Golfers Land is a site on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland dating to around 1681. The site gets its name from the town house of John Paterson, said to have been the teammate of the Duke of Albany in what is often regarded as the first international golf contest.
Sciennes photo The Canongate
The Canongate is the main eastern section of Edinburgh’s Old Town. It began when David I of Scotland authorised Holyrood Abbey to found a burgh separate from Edinburgh between the Abbey and Edinburgh. The burgh gained its name from the route the canons took to Edinburgh. In 1636 the adjacent city of Edinburgh bought the feudal superiority of the canongate.
Sciennes photo Dean Village
Dean Village (from dene, meaning ‘deep valley’) is a former village immediately northwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was known as the “Water of Leith Village” and was a successful grain milling area for more than 800 years.
Sciennes photo Moray Estate
The Moray Estate in Edinburgh was an exclusive early 19th century building venture. Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it is a masterpiece of urban planning. It has accommodated the rich and famous from its outset.
Sciennes photo Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Stockbridge is a suburb of Edinburgh, located north of the city centre. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg, meaning a timber bridge. The current “Stock Bridge” is a stone structure spanning the Water of Leith.
Sciennes photo Merchiston
Merchiston is a residential area around Merchiston Avenue in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is known as Merchiston, or Merchiston in the north-east of Edinburgh.
Sciennes photo Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian, it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland’s second-most populous city and the seventh-most in the United Kingdom. It is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the highest courts in Scotland. The city’s Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch.
Sciennes photo St James Quarter
St James Quarter is a retail, lifestyle and residential district in Edinburgh. It is situated in the east end of the New Town. The district is a redevelopment on the site of the St James Centre which closed in October 2016.
Sciennes photo Edinburgh Geographical Institute
Edinburgh Geographical Institute was founded as a map publisher by famed Scottish geographer and cartographer John George Bartholomew in 1888. The Institute was established in 1888 as a publisher of maps and maps.

Visit Sciennes plaques


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Sciennes has 188 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sciennes plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Sciennes using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sciennes plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.