East Edinburgh
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.Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
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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 Portobello and Brunstane.
Portobello
Suburb
Photo: Gweduni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh in eastern central Scotland. It lies 3 miles east of the city centre, facing the Firth of Forth, between the suburbs of Joppa and Craigentinny.
Brunstane
Suburb
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.
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.
East Edinburgh
- Type: territory
- Also known as: “Edinburgh/East”
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.942° or 55° 56′ 31″ northLongitude
-3.103° or 3° 6′ 11″ westOpen location code
9C7RWVRW+RQWikidata ID
Q14214698
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In Other Languages
From Hebrew to Italian—“East Edinburgh” goes by many names.
- Hebrew: “אדינבורו/מזרח העיר”
- Italian: “Edimburgo est”
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