Elginhaugh
Elginhaugh Roman Fort was a Roman fort of the 1st century AD, located in Midlothian, Scotland. Elginhaugh is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Midlothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Elginhaugh Roman fort”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St David’s Church and Newbattle Abbey.
St David’s Church
Church
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St David's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. It was founded in 1854 by Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian. It was designed by Joseph Hansom and is a category A listed building. St David’s Church is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Elginhaugh.
Newbattle Abbey
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newbattle Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Newbattle in Midlothian, Scotland, which subsequently became a stately home and then an educational institution. Newbattle Abbey is situated 1 mile southeast of Elginhaugh.
Eskbank railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eskbank is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 8 miles 25 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the towns of Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith in Midlothian, Scotland. Eskbank railway station is situated 1 mile south of Elginhaugh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dalkeith and Newbattle.
Dalkeith
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0.
Dalkeith is a town in Midlothian, six miles southeast of Edinburgh in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's a commuter town for the city and had a population of 13,400 in 2016.
Newbattle
Suburb
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Newbattle is a village and civil parish in Midlothian, Scotland. The village lies south of Dalkeith, about seven miles from Edinburgh. It is notable for containing Newbattle Abbey, a stately home built on the site of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery.
Lasswade
Village
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Lasswade is a village and civil parish in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River North Esk, nine miles south of Edinburgh city centre, contiguous with Bonnyrigg and between Dalkeith to the east and Loanhead to the west. Melville Castle lies to the north east.
Elginhaugh
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.89437° or 55° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.08565° or 3° 5′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C7RVWV7+PPOpenStreetMap ID
way 739871880OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q5360076
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Persian—“Elginhaugh” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Elginhaugh”
- Persian: “الگینهو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Elginhaugh”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.