Pilrig Park

Pilrig Park is a park in Edinburgh, Scotland. Pilrig Park is situated near Edinburgh House Hotel, as well as near Parkside Primary School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Easter Road and Parkside Primary School.

Easter Road

Stadium

Photo: Pachiscool11, CC0.

Easter Road is a football stadium located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the home ground of Scottish Premiership club Hibernian. The stadium currently has an all-seated capacity of 20,421, which makes it the sixth-largest football stadium in Scotland. Easter Road is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Pilrig Park.

Parkside Primary School

School

Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce is a Gaelic medium primary school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Administered by the City of Edinburgh Council, the school is open to any parents in the city or surrounding areas who wish to have their children learn and be educated through Scottish Gaelic. Parkside Primary School is situated 880 feet north of Pilrig Park.

HMY Britannia

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. HMY Britannia is situated 1 mile north of Pilrig Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilrig and Bonnington.

Pilrig

Quarter

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pilrig is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The name probably derives from the long field on which a peel tower stood. There is evidence of a peel tower situated on an area of higher ground above the Water of Leith.

Bonnington

Quarter

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bonnington is a district of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The area centres upon an original village which grew up around a ford on the Water of Leith, on the old boundary between Edinburgh and the port of Leith.

Leith

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Leith is the historic port of Edinburgh the capital of Scotland, north of city centre on the shore of the Firth of Forth. It's now only a minor port and has lost much of its industry, to be replaced by retail, bistros and cobbled wharves.

Pilrig Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.96803° or 55° 58′ 5″ north

Longitude

-3.18048° or 3° 10′ 50″ west

Open location code

9C7RXR99+6R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23165357

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Highlights: Pilrig Park Community Woodland and Edinburgh House Hotel.

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