Shell Grotto
Shell Grotto is a building in East Lothian, Scotland. Shell Grotto is situated nearby to the memorial Earl of Stair’s Monument, Newhailes, Musselburgh, as well as near Ladies Walkway.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Earl of Stair’s Monument, Newhailes, Musselburgh and Musselburgh railway station.
Earl of Stair’s Monument, Newhailes, Musselburgh
Memorial
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Earl of Stair’s Monument, Newhailes, Musselburgh is a memorial.
Musselburgh railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Musselburgh railway station serves the town of Musselburgh, in East Lothian, Scotland. It was opened by British Rail in 1988; it lies on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of Edinburgh Waverley, and the North Berwick Line. Musselburgh railway station is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Shell Grotto.
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 4,000 feet southwest of Shell Grotto.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eastfield and Joppa.
Eastfield
Neighborhood
Eastfield is a primarily residential district on the north eastern outskirts of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies between Joppa and the Edinburgh City boundary with Musselburgh.
Joppa
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joppa is an eastern suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello of which it was a suburb when Portobello was a burgh, to the south by the open area south of Milton Road and to the east by Musselburgh in East Lothian.
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.
Shell Grotto
- Type: Building
- Category: historic site
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.94265° or 55° 56′ 34″ northLongitude
-3.08156° or 3° 4′ 54″ westOpen location code
9C7RWWV9+39OpenStreetMap ID
way 31281701OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=folly
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