Brunstane
Brunstane is a northeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies on the A1 and is served by Brunstane railway station on the Borders Railway. Brunstane 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brunstane railway station and Newcraighall railway station.
Brunstane railway station
Railway station
Photo: Garry Cornes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brunstane is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 3 miles 72 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburbs of Brunstane and Portobello in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Newcraighall 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 Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. 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 Edinburgh such as Craigmillar and Niddrie.
Bellfield
Community center
Photo: Action Porty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bellfield is a community centre located in what was previously Portobello Old Parish Church, a Georgian church of classical design located in Bellfield Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Edinburgh and Joppa.
East Edinburgh
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of Edinburgh is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, Leith, the coast, and the separate town of Musselburgh. 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.
Joppa
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joppa is an eastern suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello of which it was a suburb when Portobello was a burgh, to the south by the open area south of Milton Road and to the east by Musselburgh in East Lothian.
Newcraighall
Village
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Newcraighall is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian 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.
Brunstane
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.94286° or 55° 56′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.1011° or 3° 6′ 4″ westElevation
92 feet (28 metres)Open location code
9C7RWVVX+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3965249662OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scots—“Brunstane” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brunstane”
- German: “Brunstane House”
- Irish: “Baile Ghille-Beirt”
- Italian: “Brunstane”
- Japanese: “ブルンステイン”
- Scots: “Brunstane”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include The Club and Edinburgh College - Milton Road Campus.
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