The Knoll

The Knoll is a locality in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Knoll is situated nearby to the locality The Binks, as well as near Snab Point.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cramond Tower and Inch Mickery.

Cramond Tower

Castle

Photo: Mrabbits, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cramond Tower is a fifteenth-century tower house in the village of Cramond to the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is about two miles north of Edinburgh. Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Innis nam Biocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicars, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby Inchcolm. Inch Mickery is situated 1½ miles northeast of The Knoll.

Cramond Kirk

Church

Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY 3.0.

Cramond Kirk is a church situated in the middle area Cramond parish, in the north west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of an old Roman fort, parts of the Cramond Kirk building date back to the fourteenth century and the church tower is considered to be the oldest part.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silverknowes and Cramond.

Silverknowes

Suburb

Silverknowes is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying to the northwest of the city. The district contains over 2000 homes, ranging in size from bungalow to semi-detached housing, much of it built during the mid-twentieth century.

Cramond

Suburb

Photo: Struan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cramond Village is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth. The Cramond area has evidence of Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Roman activity.

Barnton

Suburb

Photo: Sandy Gemmill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barnton is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated about 7 kilometres north west of the city centre. Part of the area was traditionally known as Cramond Muir in reference to Cramond to the north. Barnton is situated 2 miles south of The Knoll.

The Knoll

Type: Locality
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.99039° or 55° 59′ 25″ north

Longitude

-3.2908° or 3° 17′ 27″ west

Open location code

9C7RXPR5+5M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4426716417

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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