Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall

Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall is a memorial in , . Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall is situated nearby to the church , as well as near .
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: fountain in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain”
  • Inscription: “ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS DISTRICT TO SHOW THEIR HIGH ESTEEM THE THE MEMORY OF DR ANDREW BALFOUR WHO FOR THIRTY YEARS TOOK A GREAT INTEREST IN THE WELFARE OF THIS VILLAGE DIED 26th DECEMBER 1906 ERECTED JUNE 1907”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Newcraighall railway station and Musselburgh 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 and . The station, situated close to the A1 road 4 miles 54 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of and other parts of south-eastern such as and . is situated 850 feet south of Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of , in , Scotland. It was opened by British Rail in 1988; it lies on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of , and the North Berwick Line. is situated 3,500 feet east of Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall.

Railway station
Photo: Garry Cornes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brunstane is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 3 miles 72 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburbs of and in , Scotland. is situated 3,400 feet northwest of Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newcraighall and Brunstane.

Village
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
is a South-Eastern suburb of , Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the coalfields. The 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.

Suburb
is a northeastern suburb of , . It lies on the A1 and is served by on the Borders Railway. 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.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of . 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.

Dr Andrew Balfour Drinking Fountain, Whitehill Street, Newcraighall

Latitude
55.93517° or 55° 56′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.08928° or 3° 5′ 21″ west
Open location code
9C7RWWP6+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9689802971
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q56631686
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