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Newcraighall

Newcraighall is a South-Eastern suburb of , Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and closed in the 1960s, work transferring to nearby Bilston Glen and in particular the last-to-close Monktonhall pit.
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Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Newcraighall railway station and Musselburgh railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newcraighall is a railway station on the Borders Railway in Scotland, which runs between and . The station, situated close to the A1 road 4 miles 54 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of Newcraighall and other parts of south-eastern such as and .

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
is a railway station serving the town of , near in . It was opened by British Rail in 1988 and is located on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of , and is served by the North Berwick Line.

Railway station
Photo: Garry Cornes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brunstane is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 3 miles 72 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburbs of and in , Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brunstane and East Edinburgh.

Suburb
is a northeastern suburb of , . It lies on the A1 and is served by on the Borders Railway. partly consists of new housing, such as the Gilberstoun estate, and also contains the 1950s council housing schemes known as Magdalene and the Christians, which are south and north of Milton Road respectively.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of . It's a sprawl of residential and industrial districts, and the only two parts of interest to visitors are Portobello beach resort and the hamlet of Duddingston.

Neighborhood
is a primarily residential district on the north eastern outskirts of , the capital of . It lies between and the Edinburgh City boundary with .

Newcraighall

Latitude
55.93511° or 55° 56′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.08957° or 3° 5′ 22″ west
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
Open location code
9C7RWWP6+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3929040511
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
10277945
Wiki­data ID
Q7017655
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Newcraighall” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Newcraighall”
  • Irish: “Talla na Creige Nuadh”
  • Japanese: “ニュークレイグホール”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Talla na Creige Nuadh”

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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 “Newcraighall”. Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.