Welcome to Visit Abbeyhill Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Abbeyhill


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

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Abbeyhill is one of the oldest parts of Edinburgh, taking its name from Holyrood Abbey, a major historic religious site. The suburb is largely composed of streets of tenement housing, such as Waverley Park and Milton Street. James Tytler made Britain’s first hot-air balloon flight in 1784, landing about half a mile away in Restalrig. When you visit Abbeyhill, Walkfo brings Abbeyhill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Abbeyhill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Abbeyhill

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

With 463 audio plaques & Abbeyhill places for you to explore in the Abbeyhill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Abbeyhill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Abbeyhill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?

Visit Abbeyhill PlacesYou can visit Abbeyhill places with Walkfo Abbeyhill to hear history at Abbeyhill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Abbeyhill has 463 places to visit in our interactive Abbeyhill 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 Abbeyhill, 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 Abbeyhill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Abbeyhill & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 463 audio facts unique to Abbeyhill places in an interactive Abbeyhill map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Abbeyhill Places Map
463 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

 
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  Abbeyhill historic spots

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

  

Best Abbeyhill places to visit

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

Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill photo Victoria Park, Edinburgh
Victoria Park is a district in north Edinburgh south of Newhaven and lying between Trinity and Leith. The area was given Conservation Area status in March 1998.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill 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.
Abbeyhill photo Portobello Swim Centre
Edinburgh’s only authentic and publicly available turkish bath, one of three remaining in Scotland. The salt water baths were completed in 1901. It has been given Category A listed building status by Historic Environment Scotland.

Visit Abbeyhill plaques

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here Abbeyhill has 191 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Abbeyhill 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 Abbeyhill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Abbeyhill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.