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Arthur's Seat

An extinct volcano some 300 million years old, 250.5 metres high, reached in 48 minutes on foot from the centre of Edinburgh. I climbed it on 4 August 2026 — the one free day between the end of the Residentiary Choir week and the move south. On the way down are the ruins of a 600-year-old chapel and a well that has long since run dry.

Last updated: 5 September 2026

  • The Royal Mile, cobbled and lined with old buildings
  • The crags of Arthur's Seat rising beyond a loch
  • Tiny figures standing on the summit of the crag
  • Walkers in ordinary clothes on the stepped path
  • Needle-leaved shrubs spreading across the hillside
  • Blackberries turning from red to black
  • Climbing the rocks just below the summit
  • Edinburgh and the sea, seen from the summit
  • The summit indicator: HEIGHT OF ARTHUR'S SEAT 250.5m
  • The grassy path down
  • The ruin of St Anthony's Chapel, one wall still standing
  • Looking up at the arch in the surviving wall
  • The dry remains of the holy well beneath the rock
  • A recess cut into the stone wall
  • Salisbury Crags seen from below
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