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Corstorphine

Corstorphine is an area of the capital city of . Formerly a separate village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, it is now a suburb of the city, having been formally incorporated into it in 1920.
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Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Crois Thoirfinn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Corstorphine Old Parish Church and South Gyle railway station.

Church
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly St. John's Collegiate Church, is at the old centre of Corstorphine, a village incorporated to the west area of .

Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station serving in the City of , Scotland. The station was opened on 9 May 1985 by ScotRail alongside new housing in the area, and is located on the Fife Circle Line, 4+1⁄2 miles west of .

Peak
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a low ridge-shaped hill rising above the western suburbs of , . Although there has been residential and commercial development on its lower slopes, especially in the south and west, most of the hill is occupied by a local nature reserve, consisting of extensive broadleaf woodland, accessible to the public.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Edinburgh and Wester Broom.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The west of is the area you traverse coming from the airport or Glasgow towards city centre. It's a modern low-rise tract of suburbs, retail and light industry that could be on the edge of any British city, but it has accommodation, the zoo, and Murrayfield rugby stadium.

Neighborhood
is a district of , . It borders /Forrester, Corstorphine and . It is sometimes considered to be part of one of the latter two.

Neighborhood
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb in the west of in , located approximately 3 miles from the city centre. It is bordered by Tyler's Acre to the north, the Glasgow/Aberdeen railway line to the south, Golf Course to the east, and Saughton Road North to the west.

Corstorphine

Latitude
55.94315° or 55° 56′ 35″ north
Longitude
-3.28285° or 3° 16′ 58″ west
Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)
Open location code
9C7RWPV8+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29173157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2652311
Wiki­data ID
Q5173194
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Corstorphine” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Corstorphine”
  • Catalan: “Corstorphine”
  • Chinese: “科尔斯托尔芬”
  • Chinese: “科斯托芬”
  • Chinese: “科爾斯托爾芬”
  • Irish: “Crois Thoirfinn”
  • Japanese: “コースターフィン”
  • Russian: “Корсторфин”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Crois Thoirfinn”
  • “Corstorphine - Crois Thoirfinn”
  • “Crois Thoirfinn”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St Ninian’s Church, 144 St John’s Road, Edinburgh and Corstorphine Community Centre.

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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 “Corstorphine”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.