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Every one of these is somewhere we would book ourselves: a boutique hotel at the edge of Holyrood Park, a flat in an old West End stable block, and a cart shed, a wash house and a timber cabin on hill farms in the Pentlands, a short drive from the city. Choose one to see it, the nights it is free and how to book.

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Did you know47 minutes ago

The Scott, a hotel on the edge of Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, began as a merchant's house in the 1750s and spent decades as a student residence.

The house was built in the 1750s for the merchant Alexander Scott. In the 19th century the publisher William Nelson had the architect John Lessels enlarge it, and gave it the baronial look it still has. Gatehouses, stables and coach houses followed. In the 1940s the physician and philanthropist Donald Pollock gave the estate to the University of Edinburgh, and for decades the house was a student residence. Restored in the early 21st century, it is now a hotel, with work by Scottish artists and designers in its rooms. Holyrood Park begins at the door, and the climb to Arthur's Seat with it.

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Where to stay near White Horse Close.

A white-harled courtyard of crow-stepped houses at the foot of the Canongate, a 17th-century close rebuilt in the 1960s to look as it once did.

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The Old Town2 hours ago

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The Old Town, from the castle to Holyrood.

The Royal Mile runs downhill from Edinburgh Castle past St Giles' to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, with closes and wynds leading off on either side.

Explore The Old Town

Opens 31 October3 hours ago

Ricks comes back to Frederick Street in Edinburgh on 31 October, after nine years as Rabble.

The restaurant and bar with rooms is being redesigned by Malcolm Duffin Design, and its ten bedrooms in the old warehouse and stables are being done up too.

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Places to Stay in and Around Edinburgh

Some of these are in the middle of the city and some out in the countryside half an hour away. From Old Town flats to converted farm buildings, these are our favourite places to stay in and around it.

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From the JournalThe journal5 hours ago

Where to Stay in Edinburgh

The Old Town for the castle and the closes, Stockbridge for a village in the city, Leith for the restaurants: which part of Edinburgh to stay in, and the places we like in each.

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Did you know6 hours ago

The Wash House at Eastside, a hill farm in the Pentland Hills, is run by a family who have farmed the same land for five generations.

The Cowan family have farmed Eastside for five generations, and their Scottish Blackface sheep have helped shape these hills for centuries. Jenny grew up in the farmhouse just below the summit of West Kip, while her mum and dad ran a couple of holiday cottages alongside the farm. She met Michael while he was studying architecture and she was studying landscape architecture, and the two of them came back to Eastside together. It is still a family-run business, and the Wash House, an award-winning conversion of an 18th-century farm building for two, is part of what they have made. Jenny calls it 'a true family agritourismo where everyone mucks in to make it happen'.