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    Holyrood Park (also called the King's Park or Queen's Park depending on the reigning monarch's gender) is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about...
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    and official entertaining. The palace adjoins Holyrood Abbey, and the gardens are set within Holyrood Park. The King's Gallery was converted from existing...
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  • in Edinburgh Holyrood Palace, formally the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Holyrood Park, a royal park in central Edinburgh Holyrood Academy, Chard...
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    Scots: Scots Pairlament Biggin) is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction...
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    peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain...
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    residence of the monarch in Scotland. The ruins of Holyrood Abbey Holyrood Park, an expansive royal park to the south and east of the palace. The Queen's...
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    Holyrood Abbey is a ruined abbey of the Canons Regular in Edinburgh, Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1128 by David I of Scotland. During the 15th century...
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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 recorded...
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    the south of Holyrood Park and lies southwest of the village of Duddingston. Duddingston Loch is on the southern side of Holyrood Park, to the south...
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    is bounded in the north by Holyrood Road, the west by the Pleasance and St Leonard's Street and the east by Holyrood Park. The site housed Edinburgh's...
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    and 26 July 2009, as part of Homecoming 2009. The event was held at Holyrood Park, Scotland, and attracted around 47,000 people from all over the world...
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  • was originally called Holyrood Park. In 1910 it was renamed Venable Park, after the recently-deceased president of the city park board, Richard M. Venable...
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    School is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated on the edge of Holyrood Park, near Arthur's Seat beside Duddingston Village, in Edinburgh. It is...
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  • "Fast and Furious 9: Production crew to set up camp at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park for filming in September". Archived from the original on August 30,...
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  • areas, in the west of the postcode area. It spreads eastwards around Holyrood Park to take in areas like Abbeyhill and Mountcastle; being in east Edinburgh...
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  • never speak to her again. They reached a point on the north edge of Holyrood Park then highly distant from any house. Here he slit her throat and left...
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  • John Huntar was a Scottish farmer who kept livestock in Holyrood Park for Mary, Queen of Scots. Huntar was a burgess of the Canongate, a district of Edinburgh...
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    Park and Duddingston Loch in Holyrood Park are the only remaining natural lochs in the city while St. Margaret's and Dunsapie Lochs, also in Holyrood...
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    an older road to Haddington which still skirts the north side of the Holyrood Park. As with many other parts of the city, the area has varying definitions...
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    Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (category Parks and commons in Edinburgh)
    Edinburgh botanic garden was founded in 1670 at St. Anne's Yard, near Holyrood Palace, by Robert Sibbald and Andrew Balfour. It is the second oldest botanic...
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  • Javed Born (1989-09-04)4 September 1989 Leeds, UK Died 2 September 2021(2021-09-02) (aged 31) Holyrood Park Cause of death Murder - pushed from height...
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    Hollywood Sign (category Griffith Park)
    Conservative Party ran a billposter campaign depicting the Salisbury Crags of Holyrood Park with the message "FOLLYROOD" (in the style of the Hollywood Sign), with...
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    abolished the Royal Parks Constabulary in England. In Scotland, the powers were transferred to Historic Scotland (with security in Holyrood Park being provided...
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    hospital of St Leonard, which stood on St Leonard's Hill on the edge of Holyrood Park. The hospital had fallen out of use by the mid-17th century but, by...
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    peripheral ring. Examples of these independent wedges of green belt include Holyrood Park and Corstorphine Hill. Edinburgh includes former towns and villages...
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    Queens Museum of Art. In Scotland naumachiae were staged on a loch in Holyrood park in 1562 for the wedding of Lord Fleming and on the Water of Leith in...
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    was relocated to Holyrood Park off Queen's Drive in Edinburgh from Restalrig in 1860. It is one of seven wells located in the park. St Margaret's Well...
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  • C. Kings Park, Boscombe Kings Park, Western Australia, in Perth King's Park, in Winnipeg (Fort Richmond area) Another name for Holyrood Park in Edinburgh...
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    where it had become the sole tenant, for £31 million and the adjacent Holyrood Park House, which it had since occupied parts of, for £18.25 million. During...
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  • Covent Garden, a pub in Covent Garden, London Salisbury Crags, in Holyrood Park, Scotland Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency) Salisbury Sound, Alaska...
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