Westbank

Westbank is a neighborhood in Edinburgh, Scotland. Westbank is situated nearby to the neighborhood Rosebank, as well as near Baileyfield.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Portobello Library and Portobello Town Hall.

Portobello Library

Library

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Portobello Library is a public library in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. The current building in Rosefield Place cost £37,500 and was opened on 11 October 1963 by Lord Provost Duncan M.

Portobello Town Hall is a municipal structure in Portobello High Street, Portobello, Scotland. The building, which is managed by Portobello Central SCIO, a community body, is a Category B listed building.

St John the Evangelist Church, Portobello

Church

Photo: John Lord, CC BY 2.0.

St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church is a Catholic parish located in the Portobello district of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, in the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portobello and Craigentinny.

Portobello

Suburb

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Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh in eastern central Scotland. It lies 3 miles east of the city centre, facing the Firth of Forth, between the suburbs of Joppa and Craigentinny.

Craigentinny

Suburb

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Craigentinny is a suburb in the north-east of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of Restalrig and Lochend. Its name may be a corruption of the Gaelic Creag an t-Sionnaich, meaning "the fox's rock".

Mountcastle

Suburb

Mountcastle is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of the city centre and lies to the north-west of the neighbouring area of Portobello. Mountcastle is primarily a residential area, with many early-mid 20th century houses.

Westbank

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.9569° or 55° 57′ 25″ north

Longitude

-3.11902° or 3° 7′ 9″ west

Open location code

9C7RXV4J+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7909923397

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

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