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. The Edinburgh Mercat Cross[2][3] is located on the east side of the square while an equestrian statue of Charles II of Scotland[note 1] stands in front of the entrance to the Supreme Courts of Scotland adjoining Parliament House, on the west side.[4] The Queensberry Memorial to the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, stands in West Parliament Square.
The square also includes a statue of James Braidwood, erected in 2008, who founded what is asserted to be the world's first municipal fire service, in Edinburgh, after the Great Fire of Edinburgh in 1824.
- ^ EWH staff 2012b, p. 4.
- ^ EWH staff 2012.
- ^ EWH staff 2012a.
- ^ EWH staff 2012b, p. 3.
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