88 Places to Visit in Edinburgh and the Lothians | Directory
The Athens of the North is almost like one great treasure trove of a museum with masses of things to see and do. Just soaking up the atmosphere around the fringe festival is one the nicer things to do in summer
Athelstaneford | Balerno | Bathgate | Bo'ness | Cockburnspath | Cockenzie | Dalkeith | Dirleton | Dunbar | East Linton | Edinburgh | Gullane | Haddington | Leith | Linlithgow | Livingston | Longniddry | Musselburgh | Newtongrange | North Berwick | Pathhead | Peebles | Prestonpans | Roslin | South Queensferry | Torphichen
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Birthplace of: James Boswell, Sean Connery, Tony Blair, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gavin Hastings, Alexander Graham Bell, Stephen Hendry, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Hume, James VI, James Keir, Sir Ludovic Kennedy, John Knox, Eric Liddell, Sir Robert Lorimer, Mary, Queen of Scots, John Napier, Margaret Oliphant, Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, Henry Raeburn, Allan Ramsay, William Rankine, Jean Redpath, John Rennie, Ian Richardson, William Scott, Richard Shaw, Alastair Sim, Sir James Simpson, William Smellie, Samuel Smiles, Graeme Souness, Dame Muriel Spark, Dugald Stewart, J I M Stewart, Marie Stopes, Alan Swinton, Archibald Tait, Peter Tait, John Thomson, Sir Wyville Thomson, Archibald Thorburn, Alexander Todd, Fred Urquhart, Ethel Walker, Cecile Walton, Willie Whitelaw, Charles Wilson, George Aberdeen, Alexander II, Kenneth Alexander, Sir William Allan, Robert Anderson, Katharine Atholl, William Aytoun, John Balfour, Isaac Bayley, Michael Ballantyne, George Beilby, Charles Bell, Jemima Blackburn, Robert Boothby, William Brodie, Gilbert Burnet, Jane Carlyle, Ian Charleson, Philip Christison, Ronnie Corbett, Rory Bremner, Robert Garioch, Archibald Geikie, Walter Geikie, Hannah Gordon, Gordon Gray, John Greig, Douglas Haig, Elizabeth Haldane, John Haldane, Richard Haldane, James Hall, James Hamilton, William Hamilton, Nicky Campbell, Kirsty Gallacher, A A Gill, John Leslie, Gail Porter, Irvine Welsh, Joseph Hislop, John Home, Thomas Hope, James Hutton, Andy Irvine, James II, James V, Alison Kinnaird, Robert Knox, Alexander Laing, Harry Lauder, Robert Lauder, John Maitland, John Law, James Lind, Norman MacCaig, Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Henry MacKenzie, Charles MacLaren, Agnes Maclehose, Chrystal MacMillan, William MacTaggart, William Calder Marshall, Theodore Martin, James Maxwell, Andrew Meikle, John Menzies, Robert Moffat, Robert Mylne, Alexander Nasmyth, Patrick Nasmyth, Stephen Neill, William Nicol, Alan Ogilvie, William Orchardson, Samuel Peploe, Archibald Pitcairne, James Pryde, James Scott Cumberland, Robert Reid, Malcolm Rifkind, David Roberts, Alexander Runciman, John Runciman, Alex Salmond, Agnes Sampson, David Scott, Patrick Shirreff, Robert Sibbald, John Smith, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Hoy, James I, Kenneth Grahame, Susan Boyle, David Tennant, Tom Kitchin, Scott Brash, Sophie Hosking,
Athelstaneford
Balerno
Bathgate
Bo'ness
Cockburnspath
Cockenzie
Dalkeith
Dirleton
Dunbar
East Linton
Edinburgh
- Biggar Gasworks Museum
- Brass Rubbing Centre
- Camera Obscura and World of Illusions
- Clan Tartan Centre
- Corstorphine Dovecot
- Craigmillar Castle
- Dean Gallery
- Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World
- Edinburgh Castle
- Edinburgh Dungeons
- Edinburgh Old Town Weaving Company
- Edinburgh Zoo
- Georgian House (The)
- Gladstone's Land
- Glenkinchie Distillery
- Heriot-Watt University
- Holyrood Abbey and Abbey Strand
- Holyrood Park
- Lauriston Castle
- Museum of Scotland
- National Gallery of Scotland
- National War Museum of Scotland
- Nelson Monument
- Our Dynamic Earth
- Palace of Holyroodhouse
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Royal Museum
- Royal Scottish Academy
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery
- Scottish Parliament Public Galleries
- Scottish Parliament Visitor Centre and Shop
- St Gile's Cathedral
- St Mary's Cathedral
- St Triduana’s Chapel
- Suntrap
- Surgeons Hall Museum
- Ten Pin
- The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
- The Scotch Whisky Experience
- The Writers Museum
- Water of Leith Visitor Centre
Gullane
Haddington
- Jane Welsh Carlyle Museum
- Lauderdale Aisle, St Mary’s Church
- Lennoxlove
- Museum of Flight
- National Flag Heritage Centre
- Preston Mill & Phantassie Doocot
- St Martin’s Kirk
- St Mary's Pleasance Gardens
Leith
Linlithgow
- Beecraigs Country Park
- Blackness Castle
- House of the Binns
- Linlithgow Canal Centre, Boat Trips Museum & Tearo
- Linlithgow Palace
Livingston
Longniddry
Musselburgh
Newtongrange
North Berwick
Pathhead
Peebles
Prestonpans
Roslin
South Queensferry
Torphichen
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