Bankhead
Bankhead is a non-residential area of western Edinburgh, Scotland. It borders the Edinburgh City Bypass and Hermiston Gait to the west, the Calders neighbourhood to the south – accessed via a pedestrian underpass, Sighthill to the east, and South Gyle/Edinburgh Park to the north.- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: area in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bankhead, Edinburgh” and “Ceann na Bruaiche”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edinburgh Park station and Scott Russell Aqueduct.
Edinburgh Park station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edinburgh Park railway station is a railway station in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, serving the Edinburgh Park business park and the Hermiston Gait shopping centre.
Scott Russell Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Renata, Public domain.
The Scott Russell Aqueduct is an aqueduct carrying the Union Canal over the Edinburgh City Bypass, west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
South Gyle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Gyle railway station is a railway station serving South Gyle in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The station was opened on 9 May 1985 by ScotRail alongside new housing in the area, and is located on the Fife Circle Line, 4+1⁄2 miles west of Edinburgh Waverley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Calders and Sighthill.
The Calders
Neighborhood
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Calders is a residential neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland – not to be confused with the Calders of West Lothian aka West Calder, Mid Calder and East Calder, three separate villages.
Sighthill
Suburb
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sighthill is a suburb in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is bordered by Broomhouse and Parkhead to the east, South Gyle to the north, the industrial suburb of Bankhead and the Calders neighbourhood to the west, and Wester Hailes to the south.
Forrester
Neighborhood
Forrester is a primarily residential area of Corstorphine, Edinburgh which has its own high school and rugby club. The closest railway stations are at South Gyle and Edinburgh Park, but it is itself wedged between the two railway lines.
Bankhead
- Categories: industrial zone and locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.92492° or 55° 55′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.29785° or 3° 17′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C7RWPF2+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 3966284088OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q1125448
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Bankhead” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bankhead (Edinburgh)”
- Basque: “Bankhead”
- French: “Bankhead, Edinburgh”
- German: “Bankhead, Edinburgh”
- Irish: “Ceann na Bruaiche”
- Italian: “Bankhead”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ceann na Bruaiche”
- Spanish: “Bankhead, Edinburgh”
- “Bankhead”
- “Bankhead - Ceann na Bruaiche”
- “Bankhead, Edinburgh”
- “Ceann na Bruaiche”
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