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Silverknowes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Silverknowes

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Silverknowes history

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Until the 1930s, the Silverknowes area was open farmland. It was previously part of the Lauriston Estate, and was known as Randalston. Most of the land was acquired by McTaggart & Mickel, a Glasgow-based firm of tenement builders. The development was originally a mixture of private and council housing, but is mainly owner-occupied.

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway opened a branch line from Craigleith to Barnton via Davidson’s Main in 1894. The line closed to passengers in 1951 and to goods traffic in 1960. The surviving trackbed is now a footpath and cycle path, forming part of the National Cycle Network Route 1.

Anti-aircraft measures

During World War II, Silverknowes was the site of a heavy anti-aircraft battery. The battery was situated on the north side of the SilverKnowes Golf Course. It consisted of a group of ‘fire-burning’ boxes, designed to appear from the air as a burning town or city.

You can visit Silverknowes places with Walkfo Silverknowes to hear history at Silverknowes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Silverknowes has 86 places to visit in our interactive Silverknowes 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 Silverknowes, 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 Silverknowes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Silverknowes & the surrounding areas.

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86 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Best Silverknowes places to visit

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

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.

Barnton, Edinburgh Barnton (Scottish Gaelic: Baile an t-Sabhail) is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the north-west of the city. Part of the area was traditionally known as “Cramond Muir” in reference to Cramond to the north.

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.

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.

Drumsheugh Baths Club The Drumsheugh Baths Club is a private swimming club founded in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in the 1882 and is now based in the city of Edinburgh.

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