Shawfair Bing
Shawfair Bing is a landfill in Edinburgh, Scotland. Shawfair Bing is situated nearby to the power station Kelda Organic Energy, Millerhill, as well as near Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Newcraighall railway station and Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre.
Newcraighall 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 Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated close to the A1 road 4 miles 54 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of Newcraighall and other parts of south-eastern Edinburgh such as Craigmillar and Niddrie. Newcraighall railway station is situated 2,500 feet north of Shawfair Bing.
Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre
Power station
Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre is a recycling and waste incineration facility at Millerhill in Midlothian, near Edinburgh in Scotland. Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Shawfair Bing.
Shawfair railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shawfair is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 5 miles 64 chains southeast of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the villages of Danderhall and Shawfair in Midlothian, Scotland. Shawfair railway station is situated 3,100 feet south of Shawfair Bing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcraighall and Danderhall.
Newcraighall
Village
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Newcraighall is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall 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.
Danderhall
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Danderhall is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, just outside Edinburgh but inside the Edinburgh City Bypass.
Niddrie
Suburb
Photo: Renata, Public domain.
Niddrie is a residential suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated in the south-east of the city, south-west of the seaside area of Portobello, and west of Musselburgh in East Lothian near Fort Kinnaird retail park.
Shawfair Bing
- Type: Landfill
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.92617° or 55° 55′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.09229° or 3° 5′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C7RWWG5+F3OpenStreetMap ID
way 31257892OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=landfill
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In Other Languages
“Shawfair Bing” goes by many names.
- French: “Terril de Shawfair”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kelda Organic Energy, Millerhill and Shawfair Community Woodlands.
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