Wester Broom
Wester Broom is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland. It borders Broomhouse/Forrester, Corstorphine and South Gyle. It is sometimes considered to be part of one of the latter two.Places of Interest
Highlights include South Gyle railway station and St Augustine’s High School, Edinburgh.
South Gyle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Gyle railway station is a railway station serving South Gyle in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The station was opened on 9 May 1985 by ScotRail alongside new housing in the area, and is located on the Fife Circle Line, 4+1⁄2 miles west of Edinburgh Waverley.
St Augustine’s High School, Edinburgh
School
St. Augustine's High School, established in 1969, is a Roman Catholic secondary school serving the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, with approximately 840 pupils.
Forrester High School
School
Forrester High School is a secondary school in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland. St Augustine's High School, an RC secondary, moved onto a shared campus with Forrester High School in January 2010. Previously the schools had been next to each other.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forrester and South Gyle.
Forrester
Neighborhood
Forrester is a primarily residential area of Corstorphine, Edinburgh which has its own high school and rugby club. The closest railway stations are at South Gyle and Edinburgh Park, but it is itself wedged between the two railway lines.
South Gyle
Suburb
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Gyle is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying on the western edge of the city and to the south and west of an area of former marshland once known as the Gogarloch, on the edge of Corstorphine.
Corstorphine
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corstorphine is an area of the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh. Formerly a separate village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, it is now a suburb of the city, having been formally incorporated into it in 1920.
Wester Broom
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.93623° or 55° 56′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.2912° or 3° 17′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C7RWPP5+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3966284098OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q7987357
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Wester Broom” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wester Broom”
- Vietnamese: “Wester Broom”
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Highlights include Broomhall Drive Post Office and Physic Well.
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