Slateford
Slateford is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of the Water of Leith. The former village of Slateford lies on the Lanark Road where it crosses the Water of Leith, 1⁄4 mile south west of Slateford Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Àth na Sglèata”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slateford railway station and Murrayfield.
Slateford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Slateford railway station is a railway station serving Slateford in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.
Murrayfield
Stadium
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Murrayfield Stadium is a rugby union stadium located in the area of the same name in Edinburgh, Scotland. The stadium is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union which has its headquarters based at the stadium, and is the national stadium of the Scotland national rugby union team.
Tynecastle Park
Stadium
Tynecastle Park, also known as Tynecastle Stadium or colloquially as Tynie, is a football stadium in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, which is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Heart of Midlothian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chesser and Stenhouse.
Chesser
Neighborhood
Chesser is a mainly residential suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of the Water of Leith. It, with Longstone, is to the south-west, Allan Park and Craiglockhart to the south, Slateford, Hutchison and Moat to the east, and Gorgie Road to the north.
Stenhouse
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stenhouse is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the west of the City Centre, adjacent to Whitson and Saughton Mains and close to Broomhouse and Chesser.
Craiglockhart
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Craiglockhart is a suburb in the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying between Colinton to the south, Morningside to the east Merchiston to the north east, and Longstone and Kingsknowe to the west. The Water of Leith is also to the west.
Slateford
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.92977° or 55° 55′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.2459° or 3° 14′ 45″ westElevation
203 feet (62 metres)Open location code
9C7RWQH3+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 35784909OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Slateford” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Slateford”
- Irish: “Àth na Sglèata”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Àth na Sglèata”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Slateford”
- “Àth na Sglèata”
- “Slateford”
- “Slateford - Àth na Sglèata”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Slateford”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.