Colinton
Colinton is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland situated 3+1⁄2 miles southwest of the city centre. Up until the late 18th century it appears on maps as Collington.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 7,640 residents
- Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Collingtoun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colinton Parish Church and Merchiston Castle School.
Colinton Parish Church
Church
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Colinton Parish Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The church building is located in Dell Road, Colinton, Edinburgh, Scotland next to the Water of Leith.
Merchiston Castle School
School
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Merchiston Castle School is an independent boarding school for boys in the suburb of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has around 470 pupils and is open to boys between the ages of 7 and 18 as either boarding or day pupils; it was modelled after English public schools.
Redford Barracks
Military installation
Photo: Ldopa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Redford Cavalry and Infantry Barracks is a military installation located on Colinton Road, near the Edinburgh City Bypass, east of the suburb of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bonaly and Redford.
Bonaly
Suburb
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bonaly is an area on the south-western outskirts of Edinburgh and the northern slopes of the Pentland Hills, lying within the Parish of Colinton. It is a mix of mainly post-war housing, woodland, pasture-land and heather moorland.
Redford
Neighborhood
Redford is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is in the south-west of the city, south-east of the Colinton area, and is known particularly for Redford Barracks, an army base.
Clovenstone
Neighborhood
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clovenstone is a neighbourhood in southwestern Edinburgh, Scotland. It is in Wester Hailes and close to the A720 road. Wester Hailes Baptist Church is in Clovenstone, as is a local nursing home.
Colinton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9073° or 55° 54′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.25755° or 3° 15′ 27″ westPopulation
7,640Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)Open location code
9C7RWP4R+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 35785286OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2652577Wikidata ID
Q5145731
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Colinton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Colinton”
- Breton: “Colinton”
- Cebuano: “Colinton”
- Chinese: “科林顿”
- Corsican: “Colinton”
- Danish: “Colinton”
- Dutch: “Colinton”
- French: “Colinton”
- German: “Colinton”
- Indonesian: “Colinton”
- Irish: “Baile Cholgain”
- Italian: “Colinton”
- Japanese: “コリントン”
- Low German: “Colinton”
- Portuguese: “Colinton”
- Romanian: “Colinton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Cholgain”
- Spanish: “Colinton”
- Swedish: “Colinton”
- Tahitian: “Colinton”
- Welsh: “Colinton”
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