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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Saughton
Visit Saughton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Saughton places to visit. A unique way to experience Saughton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Saughton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Saughton is a suburb of the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, bordering Broomhouse, Stenhouse, Longstone and Carrick Knowe. It is best known for its prison, known officially as “HM Prison Edinburgh”, but colloquially as “Saughton Prison”, which lies to the south of the district. When you visit Saughton, Walkfo brings Saughton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Saughton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Saughton
Visit Saughton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 122 audio plaques & Saughton places for you to explore in the Saughton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Saughton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Saughton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Saughton places with Walkfo Saughton to hear history at Saughton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Saughton has 122 places to visit in our interactive Saughton 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 Saughton, 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 Saughton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Saughton & the surrounding areas.
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122 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Saughton places to visit
Saughton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Saughton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Saughton’s information audio spots:
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.
Torphin
Torphin is an almost entirely non-residential area in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies just south of Juniper Green, on the opposite side of the Water of Leith, and sits both east and west of the Edinburgh City Bypass. The west side is largely rural, sporting a small number of mid-20th Century bungalows and one of Edinburgh’s many golf courses.
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.
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.
Saughton Park
Saughton Park is a public park in Edinburgh, Scotland. It includes formal gardens, specimen trees, exotic plant greenhouses, playing fields, an athletics track and a skateboard park. The skatepark was constructed in 2010 and is the largest in Scotland.
St. Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh (Union Canal)
St. Kentigern’s Church is a former Episcopalian church in Viewforth, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built in 1897 and was designed by John More Dick Peddie. The church closed in 1941 after which it was used as a nursery and garage.
Visit Saughton plaques
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here Saughton has 27 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Saughton 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 Saughton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Saughton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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