The Inch
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: district of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Inch”, “Inch, Edinburgh”, and “The Inch, Edinburgh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Craigmillar Castle and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Craigmillar Castle
Photo: stuartyeates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craigmillar Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is three miles south-east of the city centre, on a low hill to the south of the modern suburb of Craigmillar.
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. It was established in 1729. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire.
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 Liberton and Moredun.
Liberton
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Liberton 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.
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.
Prestonfield
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prestonfield is a primarily residential suburb in the south of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies to the east of the A7 road, as it leaves the city centre, approximately 3 miles south of the centre.
The Inch
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.92208° or 55° 55′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.15445° or 3° 9′ 16″ westElevation
272 feet (83 metres)Open location code
9C7RWRCW+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 289583847OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“The Inch” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Inch”
- Irish: “An Innis, Dùn Èideann”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Innis, Dùn Èideann”
- Urdu: “دی انچ، ایڈنبرا”
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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 “The Inch”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.