Lothian - Historic Buildings

Cammo Tower is a striking 4-storey round tower topped with a parapet, built in the early 19th century to supply water to nearby Cammo House and to act as a focal point for one of Scotland's earliest landscape gardens.
Cammo Road, Turnhouse, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, EH4 8AW

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Tower
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Seeming strangely out of place amid modern housing stands this 16th-century beehive-shaped dovecot that once served long-vanished Corstorphine Castle. The dovecot is in a very good state of preservation, with nesting boxes still complete and well-used by local pigeons.
2 Dovecot Road, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, EH12 7LE

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Gladstone's Land is a 16th-century merchant's house later converted into an early 17th century 'high-rise' tenement. The ground floor shop is restored to what it would have looked like when used by a 17th-century cloth merchant. Upstairs is The Painted Chamber, with colourfully painted ceiling and walls created in 1620.
477b Lawnmarket, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, EH1 2NT

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Heritage Highlight: The early 17th century Painted Chamber

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A beautifully restored 15th-century house on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, home to religious reformer John Knox for the last few months of his life. There are large tiled fireplaces and wonderful painted and panelled rooms, plus objects linked to Knox and John Mossman, a wealthy goldsmith who owned the property before Knox.
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, EH1 1SR

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Heritage Highlight: John Knox lived and (almost certainly) died here

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Mylne's Mill is a 17th-century folly perched on the top of a restaurant near the historic harbour. The Mill is one of the oldest buildings in Leith. It was erected in 1686 as a windmill, then became a signal tower in the 1800's.
1 The Shore, Leith, Lothian, Scotland, EH6 6QW

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A 15th-century market cross in very good condition mounted on a modern base. The cross has a square shaft, with a Latin cross atop. The shaft is decorated with a heraldic shield, but the coat of arms on the shield is now too worn to decipher. It probably displayed the arms of the donor.
off Main Street (B6471), Ormiston, Lothian, Scotland

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Cross
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Heritage Highlight: One of the few surviving medieval mercat crosses in Scotland

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The name might be confusing, but Preston Cross (or Preston Mercat Cross after the old term for 'market') is the name commonly given to this marvellous old early 17th-century market cross near the southern edge of Prestonpans.
East Loans/Preston Road, Prestonpans, Lothian, Scotland

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Early Christian Cross
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The largest memorial to a writer in the world, the Scott Monument commemorates Sir Walter Scott, a native of Edinburgh. The neo-Gothic monument towers over East Princess Street Gardens and offers superb views over the gardens to Edinburgh Castle. The monument was begun in 1840 and has 287 steps, rising to an observation platform. There is also a small museum to Scott inside the tower.
East Princes Street Gardens , Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, EH2 2EJ

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Heritage Highlight: The largest memorial to a writer in the world

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