Sciennes (pronounced sheens)'s an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, just outside the city centre to the south of the Meadows, with Newington to the east. Sciennes shares a Community Council with Marchmont, to the west. Since it's near to many different departments of the University of Edinburgh, Sciennes has a large student population, some living in modern university-owned buildings. Most of the housing's Victorian tenements or 19th century stone 'villas' in roads which merge into the neighbouring a… (More on Sciennes)