Prestongrange Mining Museum
Prestongrange Mining Museum is an industry museum. Its location is inside Prestonpans’ locality. Our list has 146 more places within 15 km; first among them is Edinburgh Castle, at 12 km.
Museum in Prestonpans
Inside Prestonpans
Prestongrange Mining Museum is inside Prestonpans’ locality, with 8 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Picking your season
The warmest afternoons in Prestonpans run June to September, at 17–19°C.
Prestongrange Mining Museum
Articles on it exist in 3 languages.
- Type
- Museum
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 3 languages
- Town
- in Prestonpans
- Official site
- prestongrange.org
Prestongrange Mining Museum and what surrounds it
Orange: Prestongrange Mining Museum.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Numbers: the places near it, as listed below. The dashed line is Prestonpans’ locality. · NRS locality 2022
Towns within reach of Prestongrange Mining Museum
In size, Edinburgh comes first of the 6, with 493,794 people. Each of these towns lists it on its own page of things to do.
Prestonpans
Musselburgh
Wallyford
Tranent
Compare the 6 towns
| Town | Where Prestongrange Mining Museum is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prestonpans | It’s in town | 10,623 | 9 |
| Musselburgh | 500 m southwest of it | 21,476 | 21 |
| Wallyford | 800 m south of it | 4,493 | 13 |
| Tranent | 2.4 km east of it | 12,235 | 9 |
| Cockenzie | 3.1 km northeast of it | 5,237 | 6 |
| Edinburgh | 4.3 km west of it | 493,794 | 150 |
Also within reach
Among the 146 within 15 km are 2 art galleries, 2 museums and a castle.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandEdinburgh Castle12 km away2
Historic housePalace of Holyroodhouse10 km away3
Big drawArt galleryNational Gallery12 km away · 661K visitors a year (2021)4
MuseumNational Museum of Scotland11 km away5
CathedralSt Giles' Cathedral11 km away6
Art galleryScottish National Portrait Gallery12 km away · 313K visitors a year (2015)7
Abbey or prioryHolyrood Abbey10 km away8
MuseumHMY Britannia11 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Before visiting Prestongrange Mining Museum
Where is Prestongrange Mining Museum?
Prestongrange Mining Museum is in Prestonpans, East Lothian, inside the town’s locality.
What is Prestongrange Mining Museum?
Industry museum in Prestongrange, Scotland, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Prestongrange Mining Museum?
June to September are the warmest months in Prestonpans, with afternoon highs of 17–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Prestongrange Mining Museum?
Within 15 km: Edinburgh Castle (12 km), Palace of Holyroodhouse (10 km), National Gallery (12 km) and National Museum of Scotland (11 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (9)
- Prestongrange Mining Museum: Renata, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edinburgh Castle: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Palace of Holyroodhouse: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Gallery: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Museum of Scotland: Maccoinnich~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- St Giles' Cathedral: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Original uploader was Maccoinnich at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Holyrood Abbey: Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMY Britannia: Akiramenai, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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