Welcome to Visit Roseburn Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Roseburn


Visit Roseburn PlacesVisit Roseburn places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Roseburn places to visit. A unique way to experience Roseburn’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Roseburn as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Roseburn is a 20-minute walk from the city centre, west of Haymarket and close to the Murrayfield area (and Murrayfield Stadium) It is immediately to the south of the A8 road. Roseburn Primary School offers education for children from Nursery to Primary 7. The Water of Leith flows along one side of Roseburn Park next to the Walkway. When you visit Roseburn, Walkfo brings Roseburn places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Roseburn Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Roseburn


Visit Roseburn – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 444 audio plaques & Roseburn places for you to explore in the Roseburn area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Roseburn places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Roseburn with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Roseburn PlacesYou can visit Roseburn places with Walkfo Roseburn to hear history at Roseburn’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Roseburn has 444 places to visit in our interactive Roseburn map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Roseburn, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Roseburn places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Roseburn & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 444 audio facts unique to Roseburn places in an interactive Roseburn map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Roseburn Places Map
444 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Roseburn historic spots

  Roseburn tourist destinations

  Roseburn plaques

  Roseburn geographic features

Walkfo Roseburn tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Roseburn

  

Best Roseburn places to visit


Roseburn has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Roseburn’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Roseburn’s information audio spots:

Roseburn photo Holy Corner
Holy Corner is a colloquial name for a small area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is part of Burghmuirhead, itself part of the lands of Greenhill. Holy Corner lies between Bruntsfield and Morningside.
Roseburn photo Golfers Land
The Golfers Land is a site on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland dating to around 1681. The site gets its name from the town house of John Paterson, said to have been the teammate of the Duke of Albany in what is often regarded as the first international golf contest.
Roseburn photo The Canongate
The Canongate is the main eastern section of Edinburgh’s Old Town. It began when David I of Scotland authorised Holyrood Abbey to found a burgh separate from Edinburgh between the Abbey and Edinburgh. The burgh gained its name from the route the canons took to Edinburgh. In 1636 the adjacent city of Edinburgh bought the feudal superiority of the canongate.
Roseburn photo Dean Village
Dean Village (from dene, meaning ‘deep valley’) is a former village immediately northwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was known as the “Water of Leith Village” and was a successful grain milling area for more than 800 years.
Roseburn photo Moray Estate
The Moray Estate in Edinburgh was an exclusive early 19th century building venture. Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it is a masterpiece of urban planning. It has accommodated the rich and famous from its outset.
Roseburn photo Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Stockbridge is a suburb of Edinburgh, located north of the city centre. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into the City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg, meaning a timber bridge. The current “Stock Bridge” is a stone structure spanning the Water of Leith.
Roseburn photo Merchiston
Merchiston is a residential area around Merchiston Avenue in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is known as Merchiston, or Merchiston in the north-east of Edinburgh.
Roseburn photo Corstorphine
Corstorphine is a village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, now considered a suburb of that city. The actual “High Street” itself is no longer the main street, an anomaly shared with central Edinburgh. Famous residents include Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, Bible translator Alexander Thomson and Scottish Renaissance author Helen Cruickshank.
Roseburn photo Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian, it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh is Scotland’s second-most populous city and the seventh-most in the United Kingdom. It is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the highest courts in Scotland. The city’s Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch.
Roseburn photo St James Quarter
St James Quarter is a retail, lifestyle and residential district in Edinburgh. It is situated in the east end of the New Town. The district is a redevelopment on the site of the St James Centre which closed in October 2016.

Visit Roseburn plaques


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Roseburn has 188 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Roseburn plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Roseburn using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Roseburn plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.