Piershill Cemetery
Piershill Cemetery is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Piershill Cemetery is situated nearby to Craigentinny Avenue Post Office, as well as near the community center Northfield Willowbrae Community Education Centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Edinburgh, Piersfield Terrace, Piershill Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Arthur’s Seat and Easter Road.
Arthur’s Seat
Peak
Photo: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arthur's Seat is an ancient extinct volcano that is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design".
Easter Road
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 fifth-largest football stadium in Scotland. Easter Road is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Piershill Cemetery.
Craigentinny Train Maintenance Centre
Craigentinny Train Maintenance Centre is a railway depot in the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The depot is operated by Hitachi Rail with a depot code of EC. Craigentinny Train Maintenance Centre is situated 1,700 feet east of Piershill Cemetery.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piershill and Northfield.
Piershill
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piershill is a suburb of north east Edinburgh, Scotland, in the shadow of Arthur's Seat. It is mainly residential, with local amenities including a large supermarket and filling station, bank, public library, optician, pharmacy, several takeaway restaurants and specialist retailers along with public houses.
Northfield
Suburb
Northfield is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies east of the city centre and west of Portobello. The area was laid out at low densities as local authority housing but the city employed private architects for its design - Reginald Fairlie and Reid and Forbes.
Craigentinny
Suburb
Photo: Blackpuddinonnabike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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".
Piershill Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.95466° or 55° 57′ 17″ northLongitude
-3.13698° or 3° 8′ 13″ westOpen location code
9C7RXV37+V6OpenStreetMap ID
way 29320321OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q123478046
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Craigentinny Avenue Post Office and Northfield Willowbrae Community Education Centre.
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