Liberton
Liberton; Scots: Libby, is a suburb of Edinburgh the capital of Scotland. It is in the south of the city, south of The Inch, east of the Braid Hills and west of Moredun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Liberton, Edinburgh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Liberton Tower and Liberton Hospital.
Liberton Tower
Castle
Photo: Mrabbits, Public domain.
Liberton Tower is a four-storey, square-plan tower house in the Edinburgh suburb of Liberton, on the east side of the Braid Hills.
Liberton Hospital
Hospital
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Liberton Hospital was a facility for geriatric medicine on Lasswade Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. It is scheduled to close in 2025.
Ellen’s Glen House
Hospital
Photo: Kay Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ellen's Glen House is a community-based hospital which was built to provide services to elderly and mentally ill patients in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alnwickhill and The Inch.
Alnwickhill
Suburb
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alnwickhill is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is on the southern edge of the city, approximately 4 miles from the city centre. It neighbours the areas of Liberton and Kaimes.
The Inch
Suburb
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Inch is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the south of Inch Park in the south of the city. It is located 2 miles south south-east of central Edinburgh.
Moredun
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moredun is a district in the south-east of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of Liberton, while Craigour is situated just to its north. The estate of Gut-tres or Goodtrees was the family home of James Stewart but it was renamed Moredun House in 1769 by the new owner, David Stuart Moncrieff, in recognition of a hill on his Perthshire estate.
Liberton
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.91352° or 55° 54′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.16237° or 3° 9′ 45″ westElevation
361 feet (110 metres)Open location code
9C7RWR7Q+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 35879867OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Liberton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Liberton”
- Chinese: “利伯顿”
- Irish: “Liberton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Liberton”
- Spanish: “Liberton”
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Highlights include Liberton Cemetery and Liberton Kirk.
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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 “Liberton”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.