High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Holyrood Park (also called the Queen`s Park or King`s Park depending on the current monarch`s gender) is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about a mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of whin (gorse) providing a remarkably wild piece of highland landscape within its 650-acre (260 ha) area. The park is associated with the royal palace of Holyroodhouse and was formerly a 12th-century royal hunting estate. The park was created in 1541 when James V had the ground "circulit about Arthurs Sett, Salisborie and Duddingston craggis" enclosed by a stone wall. Holyrood Park is now publicly accessible. Arthur`s Seat, the highest point in Edinburgh, is at the centre of the park, with the cliffs of Salisbury Crags to the west. There are three lochs; St Margaret`s Loch, Dunsapie Loch, and Duddingston Loch. The ruined St Anthony`s Chapel stands above St Margaret`s Loch. Queen`s Drive is the main route through the Park, and is partly closed on Sundays to motor vehicles. St Margaret`s Well and St Anthony`s Well are both natural springs within the park. Holyrood Park is located to the south-east of the Old Town, at the edge of the city centre. Abbeyhill is to the north, and Duddingston village to the east. The University of Edinburgh`s Pollock Halls of Residence are to the south-west, and Dumbiedykes is to the west.