A Place of Dreams

A Place of Dreams is a work of art in Edinburgh, Scotland. A Place of Dreams is situated nearby to Newcraighall railway station, as well as near Newcraighall Leith Vics FC.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Newcraighall railway station and Musselburgh railway station.

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.

Musselburgh railway station

Railway station

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Musselburgh railway station serves the town of Musselburgh, in East Lothian, Scotland. It was opened by British Rail in 1988; it lies on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of Edinburgh Waverley, and the North Berwick Line. Musselburgh railway station is situated 3,800 feet east of A Place of Dreams.

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. Brunstane railway station is situated 3,800 feet northwest of A Place of Dreams.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newcraighall and East Edinburgh.

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

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.

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.

A Place of Dreams

Type: Work of art
Artwork type: sculpture
Category: tourism
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.93316° or 55° 55′ 59″ north

Longitude

-3.09105° or 3° 5′ 28″ west

Open location code

9C7RWWM5+7H

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13660425612

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=artwork

OpenStreetMap attribute

artwork_type=sculpture

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