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near to Craigmillar, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Old Milestone by the A7 south of Edinburgh
Milestone (plates lost) by the A7, in parish of Liberton (City of Edinburgh District), Old Dalkeith Road, The Inch, opposite Walter Scott Avenue, back of footpath, built into red sandstone wall near lamppost OAM34.
Inscription once... (more)
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Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
The new building for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Little France is nearly finished.
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Standing Stone (set of 2 images)
The stone stands in an enclosure at the end of Ravenswood Avenue. See Link for more details, and for a painting of the stone when it stood here in rural surroundings.
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Craigmillar Castle
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Kingston House, Kingston Avenue
Originally known as Craigend Park, the house was designed in 1867 by the architects Pilkington & Bell for the Edinburgh tailor, William Christie. For another example of Pilkington's work at a lower end of the social scale, see NT2472 : Fountainbridge tenement
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Bus stop and shelter on Old Dalkeith Road (A7)
Looking south east.
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Parkland and fields
Edinburgh is well off for open, wild spaces within the city limits. These fields surround the castle at Craigmillar.
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Craigmillar Castle Park
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Craigend cottages
Unusual (for Edinburgh) row of brick-built nineteenth-century cottages built next to Craigend Park country house.
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Edinburgh - 1975
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Car park, Little France Crescent
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Craigmillar Castle and Doocot
Craigmillar Castle was initially a tower house that still forms the core of the castle. This was constructed around 1400. In the 1440s the curtain wall that surrounds the tower house on three sides and creates the inner courtyard was added.... (more)
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