Castle Rock (Edinburgh)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Feb 03, 2025 05:28 PM — History

Castle Rock is a volcanic formation in Edinburgh, Scotland, upon which Edinburgh Castle was founded in the eleventh century.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/735064887

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
55.9481659, -3.1996696

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Castle Rock (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Castle Rock (Edinburgh) makes connections with:

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Castle Rock (Edinburgh) receives connections from:

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Place type:
hill

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Castle Rock (Edinburgh)

Related:

Wikidata Castle Rock (Q8522896)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Castle Rock (Edinburgh): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/735064887> [accessed: 20 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/735064887 |title=Places: 735064887 (Castle Rock (Edinburgh)) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 20, 2025 11:59 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}