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    Duddingston Loch is a lake, or freshwater loch, in Edinburgh. It is one of the last two remaining natural lochs within the city, the other being Lochend...
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    The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known by its shorter title The Skating Minister, is a late 18th-century oil painting attributed...
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  • The Duddingston Loch Hoard, currently held by National Museums Scotland (NMS), comprises Late Bronze Age weapons and other objects which were found in...
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    Duddingston is a historic village in the east of Edinburgh, Scotland, next to Holyrood Park. The estate wherein Duddingston Village now lies was first...
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  • Caithness) Dubh Loch Mór (Benmore Forest, Sutherland) (smaller than its neighbour Dubh Loch Beag) Lochanan Dubha (Coigach, Wester Ross) Duddingston Loch (Edinburgh)...
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    Holyrood Park (redirect from Dunsapie Loch)
    are three lochs: St Margaret's Loch, Dunsapie Loch, and Duddingston Loch. The ruins of St Anthony's Chapel stand above St Margaret's Loch. Queen's Drive...
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    James Usher of Toftfield Rev Robert Walker (1755–1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch Dr Wardrop of Torbane Hill Rev Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood Hugh William...
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    Loch in Lochend Park and Duddingston Loch in Holyrood Park are the only remaining natural lochs in the city while St. Margaret's and Dunsapie Lochs,...
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    Ireland, Catholics blamed the Reformation for the bad weather. The Annals of Loch Cé, in its entry for 1588, describes a midsummer snowstorm as "a wild apple...
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    Sacraments Sir Henry Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch Allan Ramsay, Margaret Lindsay Raphael, The Bridgewater Madonna Rembrandt...
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    became a member of Edinburgh Skating Club in 1780. The club met on Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh, as depicted in The Skating Minister by Raeburn. The...
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    Thames & Hudson 1981, reports Bronze Age finds at Magdalen Bridge, Duddingston Loch, Moredun, Granton and Mortonhall "Earliest evidence found of settlers...
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    garden on the shore of Duddingston Loch. Later, this was replaced by Duddingston Tower, a structure designed for Duddingston Curling Society in 1825...
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    [citation needed] Another is that the Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, from 1805 to 1840, called the members of his congregation...
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    9 February 2021. "Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch". National Galleries Scotland. Retrieved 9 February 2021. Official...
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    century, holding a longbow and a black-plumed white cockaded cap, in Holyrood Park, with Duddingston Loch and Edinburgh Castle beyond. (William Beechey)...
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    When he returned from his honeymoon, he used frogs captured from Duddingston Loch in his experiments. Lister carried out his experiments in his laboratory...
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    and Reverend on Ice (2005) (after The Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Raeburn).[citation needed] One artist he recreated multiple works...
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    Duddingston Kirk is a Parish Church in the Church of Scotland, located adjacent to Holyrood Park in Duddingston Village, on the east side of the City...
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  • Gardens Dean Village Dugald Stewart Monument Drumbrae Drylaw Duddingston Duddingston Loch Dumbiedykes Dundas Castle Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh) East Cairn...
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    placed on the ice. The favorite meeting place of club members was Duddingston Loch, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The principal object of the club was the...
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  • an expanse of moorland through which the Figgate Burn flowed, from Duddingston Loch fed by the Braid Burn to the west, to the sea, with a broad sandy beach...
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    said that on the morrow the red dragon would rise from the loch below (now Duddingston) in the form of a sword, and to him who had the hardihood to...
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    Scottish culture, the painting of The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch. The architectural critic Charles Jencks finds this a particularly...
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  • van Gogh (National Gallery) 7. The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) 8. The...
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    Murray Place. Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh. A rare octagonal curling-house and artist studio (Duddingston Manse) built for the Duddingston Curling Society...
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  • Craigengar Duddingston Loch East Kirkton Quarry Firth of Forth Hermand Birchwood Hermand Quarry Inchmickery Linhouse Valley Linlithgow Loch Lochcote Marsh...
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    painting attributed to him is The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, known as The Skating Minister. He became a knight in 1822 and the...
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    by Henry Raeburn The Skating Minister which shows Walker skating on Duddingston loch. The Very Reverend Dr Ronald Selby Wright, known as the "Radio Padre"...
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  • fragments. Duddingston Loch Hoard 950–750 BC Duddingston Loch Edinburgh 55°56′N 3°09′W / 55.94°N 3.15°W / 55.94; -3.15 (Duddingston Loch Hoard) 1778...
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