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Companies House was a member of the Public Data Group, an advisory board which between 2011 and 2015 sought to improve public access to government data. [25] Companies House is also responsible for dissolving companies. [26] In 2020, there were approximately 4.3 million businesses on the Companies House register. [27]
It then remained the Edinburgh District Council headquarters until the abolition of the Lothian Region led to the formation of Edinburgh City Council in April 1996. [9] The City Chambers were used as a filming location for the film Braveheart in 1995 [10] and for the TV series Belgravia in 2019. [11]
Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, is located off the High Street, part of the Royal Mile. [1] The square is not a formal square, but consists of two sections surrounding St Giles Kirk on three sides: an L-shaped area to the east and south and another area on the west side of the church called West Parliament Square.
Comprising an area of 1.6 ha (4 acres), with a perimeter of 480 m (1570 ft), [13] the Scottish Parliament Building is located 1 km (0.6 mi) east of Edinburgh city centre on the edge of the Old Town. [14] The large site previously housed the headquarters of the Scottish and Newcastle brewery which were demolished to make way for the building.
The Hub is a public arts and events building in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland.Located at the top of the Royal Mile, it is a prominent landmark as its tall Gothic spire (71.7 meters [1]) is the highest point in central Edinburgh, and towers over the surrounding buildings below Edinburgh Castle.
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Following a review in 2017, Edinburgh City Council decided that the building was surplus to requirements and, in 2018, the local Registrar's Office relocated to new premises at 253 High Street. [10] The French Consulate-General and the French Institute for Scotland then relocated from their former premises in Randolph Crescent into Lothian ...
The term was first used descriptively in W. M. Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), describing the city "with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between", and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook by R. T. Skinner published in 1920, "The Royal Mile (Edinburgh) Castle to Holyrood(house)". [2] The Royal Mile ...