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Edinburgh, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh Castle Boundary Stone 4

Boundary Stone (19th Century)
Edinburgh, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh Castle Boundary Stone 4
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West Princes Street Gardens holds Edinburgh Castle Boundary Stone 4, a 19th-century marker beside the castle rock. The stone likely separated owned land from public ground when the gardens took shape. People may have walked past it without noticing, yet it drew a visible line around one of Edinburgh's most watched places.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh Castle Boundary Stone 4 as Boundary Stone (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0