Gilmerton Cove
Gilmerton Cove is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland.Photo: John Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: subterranea in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Edinburgh, Gilmerton, 16 Drum Street, The Cove”
- Address: 16 Drum Street, Edinburgh, EH17 8QH
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ellen’s Glen House and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Ellen’s Glen House
Hospital
Photo: Kay Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ellen's Glen Community Hospital, originally 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. Ellen’s Glen House is situated 3,600 feet northwest of Gilmerton Cove.
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. After moving to a new site in 1879, it claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later, in the British Empire. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is situated 1¼ miles north of Gilmerton Cove.
Gracemount High School
School
Photo: Kay Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gracemount High School is a non-denominational six-year comprehensive secondary school serving south-east Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a current roll of over 600 pupils and around 80 staff. Gracemount High School is situated 3,900 feet west of Gilmerton Cove.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gilmerton and Ferniehill.
Gilmerton
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about 4 miles southeast of the city centre. The toponym "Gilmerton" is derived from a combination of Scottish Gaelic: Gille-Moire– a personal name and later surname meaning "Servant of Mary", from which comes the first element, "Gilmer", – and Old English: ton meaning "settlement" or "farmstead".
Ferniehill
Neighborhood
Ferniehill is a residential neighbourhood of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Primarily a low-density 1960s council estate with two small public parks, it is situated in the south-east of the city, lying immediately south of the slightly older Fernieside neighbourhood, east of Moredun, and to the north of Gilmerton's main street, where most local amenities are located.
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.
Gilmerton Cove
- Categories: subterranea and tourism
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9056° or 55° 54′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.13311° or 3° 7′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C7RWV48+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 395230406OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1524649
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In Other Languages
“Gilmerton Cove” goes by many names.
- German: “Gilmerton Cove”
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