Wanton Walls
Wanton Walls is an electrical substation in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wanton Walls is situated nearby to the church Wellsprings, as well as near the memorial Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall.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. Newcraighall railway station is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Wanton Walls.
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 3,000 feet east of Wanton Walls.
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 3,700 feet northwest of Wanton Walls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcraighall and Brunstane.
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.
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
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.
Wanton Walls
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.93573° or 55° 56′ 9″ northLongitude
-3.08661° or 3° 5′ 12″ westOperator
SP Energy NetworksOpen location code
9C7RWWP7+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 6534050827
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