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Visiting Sciennes Walkfo Preview 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
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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
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.
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You 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
188 plaques hereSciennes 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.
Experience Sciennes audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Sciennes allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Sciennes’s 470 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Sciennes freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Sciennes Map App
Our visit Sciennes map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Sciennes & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Sciennes tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Sciennes centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Sciennes area at LONG:-3.186875, LAT:55.938513888889.
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Things to do & visit in Sciennes / surrounding areas
● Leamington Lift Bridge ● Bruntsfield Links ● Gilmore Place drill hall ● Lochrin ● Holy Corner ● Fountainbridge ● Greenhill, Edinburgh ● King’s Theatre, Edinburgh ● Burghmuirhead ● Bruntsfield Hospital ● The Cameo, Edinburgh ● Merchiston Tower ● Church Hill, Edinburgh ● Tollcross, Edinburgh ● Scottish Widows ● Forest Café ● Gillis Centre ● Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion ● Dalry, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh International Conference Centre ● Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh ● Dominion Cinema ● Edinburgh Filmhouse ● Sacred Heart, Edinburgh ● Haymarket, Edinburgh ● St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh ● Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion ● Usher Hall ● Ardmillan ● Royal Lyceum Theatre
● Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh ● Gorgie-Dalry ● Falcon Hall ● Marchmont ● Edinburgh Dental Institute ● Traverse Theatre ● Digital Curation Centre ● Lauriston Building ● West End, Edinburgh ● Lauriston ● Caley Picture House ● Castle Terrace Car Park ● St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) ● Quartermile ● LOVE Gorgie Farm ● Edinburgh town walls ● The Meadows, Edinburgh ● Astley Ainslie Hospital ● West Coates ● Scottish National War Memorial ● Castle Rock (Edinburgh) ● Edinburgh Castle ● St Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh ● Dance Base ● National War Museum ● Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian ● St Margaret’s Chapel, Edinburgh ● St John’s, Edinburgh ● St Catherine’s Argyle Church ● Royal Edinburgh Hospital ● Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum ● The Museum of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and the Royal Regiment of Scotland ● Portsburgh ● Grassmarket ● Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh ● Masson Hall ● Edinburgh University Press ● Shandon, Edinburgh ● The Dunstane ● Forrest Hill drill hall ● Edinburgh University Library ● Nor Loch ● St Columba’s-by-the-Castle ● Scottish American Memorial ● Rose Theatre, Edinburgh ● Witches’ Well, Edinburgh ● Greyfriars Kirk ● Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh ● Greyfriars Kirkyard ● George Square, Edinburgh ● Ramsay Garden ● Sandy Bell’s ● The Witchery by the Castle ● Charlotte Chapel (Edinburgh) ● Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre ● Reid Concert Hall ● Sciennes ● Charlotte Square ● Camera Obscura, Edinburgh ● Alexander Russell Simpson ● Myreside Stadium ● Bristo Square ● Royal Medical Society ● Bedlam Theatre ● First of May Bookshop ● McEwan Hall ● Greyfriars Bobby Fountain ● The Hub, Edinburgh ● Teviot Row House ● Magdalen Chapel, Edinburgh ● Scottish Land Court ● Morningside, Edinburgh ● Haymarket TMD ● French Institute for Scotland ● Old Town, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh University Students’ Association ● Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh ● Jordan Burn ● George IV Bridge ● Underbelly (venue) ● The Georgian House, Edinburgh ● Metropolitan Community Church of Edinburgh ● Centre for the History of the Book ● General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland ● Church of Scotland ● Bute House ● 40 George Square ● Gorgie ● National Museum of Scotland ● The Mound ● Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo ● Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities ● Church of Scotland offices ● Koestler Parapsychology Unit ● Myreside Cricket Ground ● Informatics Forum ● National Library of Scotland ● North British Distillery ● The John Murray Archive ● Dean Bridge ● Writers’ Museum ● Woodwrae Stone ● Bullion Stone ● Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh ● Makars’ Court ● Potterrow Student Centre ● The Oxford Bar ● Lamont Harp ● National Museums Scotland ● Queen Mary Harp ● Gladstone’s Land ● Lady Stair’s Close ● Scottish National Gallery ● Advocates Library ● John Dowie’s Tavern ● Orthodox Chapel of St Andrew ● Northern Lighthouse Board ● Stay Central Hotel ● Archers’ Hall ● Ellen’s Glen House ● Liberton Hospital ● Alnwickhill ● Liberton, Edinburgh ● Little France ● The Inch, Edinburgh ● Mortonhall ● Royal Hospital for Children and Young People ● Euan MacDonald Centre ● Edinburgh Obstetrical Society ● Edinburgh BioQuarter ● Liberton Tower ● Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ● Inch House, Edinburgh ● Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science ● Craigmillar Castle ● Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ● HECToR ● Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation Research Centre ● Bridgend Farmhouse Community Project ● King’s Buildings ● FloWaveTT ● Cameron Toll ● Edinburgh Corn Exchange ● Murrayfield Ice Rink ● Westfield, Edinburgh ● Slateford ● Scottish Rugby Union ● Murrayfield ● Meggetland Sports Complex ● Roseburn ● Craiglockhart Castle ● Dovecot Studios ● Craigmillar Park Church ● Beechwood Park, Leith ● Rhubaba gallery and studios ● Leith Walk ● Pilrig ● Leith Waterworld ● 98.8 Castle FM ● Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh ● Hawkhill ● Lochend House ● Lochend, Edinburgh ● Leith Links ● Abbeyhill ● South Leith Parish Church ● Trinity House of Leith ● Leith Community Treatment Centre ● Holyrood Abbey Church ● Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh ● Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce ● Bonnington, Edinburgh ● Gateway Theatre (Edinburgh) ● Royal Terrace, Edinburgh ● Abbeyhill Junction ● Rosebank Cemetery ● Old Meadowbank ● New Meadowbank ● Meadowbank, Edinburgh ● Meadowbank Stadium ● The Dunard Centre ● Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital ● Ss Ninian and Triduana’s Church, Edinburgh ● Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens ● Regent Terrace ● Holyrood Abbey ● New Calton Burial Ground ● Dugald Stewart Monument ● Calton Hill ● Edinburgh Playhouse ● Restalrig ● Forth 1 ● Forth 2 ● National Monument of Scotland ● Holyrood Palace ● Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh ● Lavender Menace Bookshop ● Collective Gallery ● Broughton, Edinburgh ● Whitefoord House ● Edinburgh Astronomical Institution ● City Observatory ● Nelson Monument, Edinburgh ● 2003 European Cross Country Championships ● Outright Scotland ● 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships ● Golfers Land ● Edinburgh Assay Office ● Scottish Parliament ● Queensberry House ● Powderhall ● St Paul’s and St George’s Church ● St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic) ● Panmure House (Edinburgh) ● Canongate Kirkyard ● St Margaret’s Well, Edinburgh ● The Bridewell ● Holyrood, Edinburgh ● St Andrew’s House ● Canongate Kirk ● Powderhall Stadium ● Craigroyston F.C. ● Scottish Poetry Library ● Bellevue, Edinburgh ● Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh) ● The Canongate ● The People’s Story Museum ● Old Calton Burial Ground ● Canongate Tolbooth ● Museum of Edinburgh ● Jock’s Lodge ● Acheson House ● York Place, Edinburgh ● Waterloo Hotel ● Bellevue Chapel ● Regent Bridge ● St. James Centre ● Old Logie Green ● Edinburgh Bus Station ● General Register House ● National Archives of Scotland ● New Register House ● Multrees Walk ● Dundas House ● General Post Office, Edinburgh ● New Logie Green ● Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh ● Chancelot Park ● Scottish Storytelling Centre ● Balmoral Hotel ● Royal Gymnasium Ground ● Dumbiedykes ● Scottish National Portrait Gallery ● North Bridge, Edinburgh ● John Knox House ● Moubray House ● Hotel Indigo Edinburgh ● Burning of Edinburgh ● Old St. Paul’s, Edinburgh ● Carrubbers Christian Centre ● Royal Mile ● The Glasshouse (hotel) ● Warriston Cemetery ● Museum of Childhood (Edinburgh) ● St Andrew Square, Edinburgh ● Occupy Edinburgh ● Melville Monument, Edinburgh ● The Scotsman Hotel ● St Patrick’s Church, Edinburgh ● Waverley Mall ● Piershill ● Canonmills ● Holyrood Park ● 57 Gallery ● City Art Centre ● Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation ● Tron Kirk ● Warriston ● Waverley Bridge ● Cleanse the Causeway ● Edinburgh Dungeon ● Scott Monument ● Edinburgh Vaults ● South Bridge, Edinburgh ● Fruitmarket Gallery ● St Cecilia’s Hall ● The Pleasance ● John Watson’s Institution ● Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ● Modern Two (Dean Gallery) ● Dean Village ● Dean Gardens, Edinburgh ● Craig House, Edinburgh ● Moray Estate ● Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1 ● New Club, Edinburgh ● Blackford Pond ● Firrhill ● Edinburgh City Hospital ● Oxgangs high rise flats ● Greenbank, Edinburgh ● Comiston ● Hermitage of Braid ● Blackford Hill ● Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh) ● James Clerk Maxwell Foundation ● Museum on the Mound ● International Centre for Mathematical Sciences ● Royal Society of Edinburgh ● Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh ● The Dome, Edinburgh ● The George Hotel (Edinburgh) ● Advocates Close ● Luckenbooths ● St Giles’ Cathedral ● Parliament of Scotland ● Parliament House, Edinburgh ● Thistle Chapel ● Mercat Cross, Edinburgh ● Parliament Square, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh City Chambers ● Mary King’s Close ● Great Fire of Edinburgh ● New Town, Edinburgh ● Cowgate ● Talbot Rice Gallery ● Western General Hospital ● Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre ● MRC Human Genetics Unit ● Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh ● Craigleith, Edinburgh ● Comely Bank ● Mountcastle, Edinburgh ● Craigentinny Marbles ● Northfield, Edinburgh ● Braid Burn ● Duddingston House ● Bingham, Edinburgh ● Duddingston ● Sheep Heid Inn ● Duddingston Kirk ● Duddingston Loch ● Arthur’s Seat ● Craigmillar ● Braid Hills ● Surgeons’ Hall ● Symposium Hall ● Edinburgh Festival Theatre ● Brass Founders’ Pillar ● Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh ● University of Edinburgh ● The Royal Oak, Edinburgh ● Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh ● Lady Yester’s Kirk ● The Pleasance (street) ● Edinburgh Central Mosque ● Adam House ● Word Power Books ● Murder of Lord Darnley ● Southside Community Centre ● Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh ● UK Astronomy Technology Centre ● Reid Memorial Church ● Blackford, Edinburgh ● Newington Cemetery ● Edinburgh University A.F.C. ● Prestonfield, Edinburgh ● Mayfield, Edinburgh ● Mayfield Salisbury Church ● Goldenacre Sports Ground ● Goldenacre ● Battle of Boroughmuir ● Burgh Muir ● St Columba’s Catholic Church, Edinburgh ● Salisbury Green ● Newington, Edinburgh ● Parole Board for Scotland ● Edinburgh Synagogue ● Longmore House ● Royal Commonwealth Pool ● Pollock Halls of Residence ● St Leonard’s Hall ● Raeburn Place ● The Grange Club ● Stockbridge, Edinburgh ● Stockbridge public library ● Inverleith House ● Silvermills ● St Stephen’s Church, Edinburgh ● Greendykes ● Merchiston ● Bruntsfield ● Union Canal (Scotland) ● Barclay Viewforth Church ● Warrender Baths ● Tynecastle Park ● Polwarth, Edinburgh ● The Grange, Edinburgh ● Centre for the Study of World Christianity ● Centre for Theology and Public Issues ● Central Library, Edinburgh ● Appleton Tower ● Sheriff Personal Injury Court ● Murrayfield Stadium ● St Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church ● Hibernian Park ● Scottish Parliament Building ● Political Martyrs’ Monument ● Edinburgh ● Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway ● St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church ● Jenners ● Dean Cemetery ● Inner House ● Court of Session ● Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ● Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ● Inverleith ● Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ● Summerhall ● Robin Chapel ● Prestonfield House ● Bonnington Chemical Works ● The Dyvours Club ● St James Quarter ● Edinburgh Geographical Institute ● Drumsheugh Baths Club ● 65 Cowgate ● West Register House ● Statue of David Livingstone, Edinburgh ● Romanes & Paterson ● White Horse Close ● Buccleuch (parish), Edinburgh ● Greenside, Edinburgh ● Saughton Park ● An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 ● St. Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh (Union Canal) ● Dumbie House
Getting to / around Sciennes – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Sciennes using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Sciennes places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Sciennes Public Transport Stations
Sciennes Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dalry Road railway station
Haymarket railway station
Edinburgh Princes Street railway station
Merchiston railway station
Morningside Road railway station
Murrayfield railway station
Craiglockhart railway station
Slateford railway station
Gorgie East railway station
Easter Road railway station
Easter Road Park Halt railway station
Leith Central railway station
Leith Walk railway station
Abbeyhill railway station
Meadowbank Stadium railway station
Powderhall railway station
Piershill railway station
Bonnington railway station
Scotland Street railway station
Jock’s Lodge railway station
Edinburgh Waverley railway station
Duddingston & Craigmillar railway station
St Leonards railway station (Scotland)
Newington railway station (Edinburgh)
Blackford Hill railway station
Princes Street Gardens
Princes Street
Rose Street
Princes Street Gardens Runestone
Easter Road (street)
Dalmeny Street drill hall
Easter Road
McDonald Road Library
London Road Gardens, Edinburgh
Great Junction Street
East Claremont Street drill hall
Dundonald Street drill hall
Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
George Street, Edinburgh
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Ferry Road
East Preston Street Burial Ground
Henderson Street
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Local Sciennes historians & Sciennes tour guides
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