The Scott Monument


The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic memorial to the author Sir Walter Scott. It stands in Princes Street Gardens, near to Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.

The tower is 200 feet 6 inches (61.11 m) high, and has a series of viewing platforms reached by a series of narrow spiral staircases giving panoramic views of central Edinburgh and its surroundings. The highest platform is reached by a total of 287 steps. It is built from Binny sandstone quarried near Ecclesmachan in West Lothian. 

Travel writer Bill Bryson has described it as looking like a "gothic rocket ship", which isn't far wrong.







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