Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S

Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S is an electrical substation in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S is situated nearby to Hyvots Bank church of Christ, as well as near Gracemount High School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ellen’s Glen House and Gracemount High School.

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 1,900 feet north of Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S.

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 1,200 feet west of Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S.

Gilmerton Cove

Photo: John Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Gilmerton Cove is situated 2,600 feet east of Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gilmerton and Moredun.

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".

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.

Kaimes

Neighborhood

Kaimes is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Centred on the Kaimes junction which nowadays links to Straiton Junction of the Edinburgh City Bypass, it is south of Alnwickhill, east of Mortonhall, north of Heritage Grange and Burdiehouse and west of Gracemount and Southhouse.

Gilmerton Dykes Crescent S/S

Type: Electrical substation
Category: industry
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.90461° or 55° 54′ 17″ north

Longitude

-3.14591° or 3° 8′ 45″ west

Operator

SP Energy Networks

Open location code

9C7RWV33+RJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8222392921

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hyvots Bank church of Christ and South Edinburgh Community Learning and Development Base.

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