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.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brunstane railway station and Newcraighall railway station.

Brunstane railway station

Railway station

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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

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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 Newcraighall.

Portobello

Suburb

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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.

Newcraighall

Village

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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

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.

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″ north

Longitude

-3.103° or 3° 6′ 11″ west

Open location code

9C7RWVRW+RQ

Wikidata ID

Q14214698

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Satellite Map

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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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