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Latitude: 55.9482 / 55°56'53"N
Longitude: -3.2002 / 3°12'0"W
OS Eastings: 325145
OS Northings: 673449
OS Grid: NT251734
Mapcode National: GBR 8MH.86
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.TR9D
Plus Code: 9C7RWQXX+7W
Entry Name: Naval And Military Museum, Edinburgh Castle
Listing Name: Edinburgh Castle, Vaults
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 395634
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48232
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh Castle, Vaults
ID on this website: 200395634
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Undercroft
15th century. Series of rubble-built vaulted undercrofts. Random rubble outer wall with barred windows.
The A Group comprises Batteries, Foog's Gate, Gatehouse, Governor's House, Great Hall, Lang Stairs, Military Prison, National War Museum, New Barracks, Old Guardhouse, Palace Block, Portcullis Gate, St Margaret's Chapel, Scottish National War Memorial, Telephone Kiosks, United Services Museum and Vaults, all within Edinburgh Castle, and in the Care of Historic Scotland. Built onto the rock to provide a level surface for the construction of Crown Square and the surrounding buildings above, the Great Hall, the Palace and the block to SW known as the Queen Anne building (now the United Services Museum). Used at various times as stores, arsenal, bake-house, civil and military prisons and barracks.
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