Welcome to Visit Slateford Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Slateford
Visit Slateford places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Slateford places to visit. A unique way to experience Slateford’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Slateford as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Slateford Walkfo Preview Slateford (Scottish Gaelic: Àth na Sglèata) is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of the Water of Leith, 1/4 mile south west of Slateford Station. The name “Slateford” comes from local rock found in the area and the old fording point. When you visit Slateford, Walkfo brings Slateford places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Slateford Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Slateford
Visit Slateford – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 286 audio plaques & Slateford places for you to explore in the Slateford area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Slateford places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Slateford with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Slateford places with Walkfo Slateford to hear history at Slateford’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Slateford has 286 places to visit in our interactive Slateford 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 Slateford, 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 Slateford places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Slateford & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Slateford tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Slateford
Best Slateford places to visit
Slateford has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Slateford’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Slateford’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
West Register House The building was constructed between 1811 and 1814 as St George’s Church on Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was designed by Robert Reid after a similar but more intricate design by Robert Adam, who designed the square’s surrounding terraces. The facade centres on an Ionic portico, above which rises a substantial green copper dome on a tall, peristyle drum.
Romanes & Paterson Romanes and Paterson is a traditional 19th century shop on Princes Street in Edinburgh. The shop is located in the centre of Edinburgh.
Visit Slateford plaques
120 plaques hereSlateford has 120 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Slateford 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 Slateford using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Slateford plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Slateford audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Slateford allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Slateford’s 286 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Slateford freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Slateford Map App
Our visit Slateford map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Slateford & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Slateford tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Slateford centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Slateford area at LONG:-3.241675, LAT:55.9281.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Slateford, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Slateford / surrounding areas
● Leamington Lift Bridge ● Bruntsfield Links ● Gilmore Place drill hall ● Lochrin ● Holy Corner ● Fountainbridge ● Greenhill, Edinburgh ● King’s Theatre, Edinburgh ● Burghmuirhead ● Bruntsfield Hospital ● The Cameo, Edinburgh ● Merchiston Tower ● Church Hill, Edinburgh ● Tollcross, Edinburgh ● Scottish Widows ● Forest Café ● Gillis Centre ● Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion ● Dalry, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh International Conference Centre ● Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh ● Dominion Cinema ● Edinburgh Filmhouse ● Sacred Heart, Edinburgh ● Haymarket, Edinburgh ● St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh ● Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion ● Usher Hall ● Ardmillan ● Royal Lyceum Theatre
● Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh ● Gorgie-Dalry ● Falcon Hall ● Marchmont ● Edinburgh Dental Institute ● Traverse Theatre ● Digital Curation Centre ● Lauriston Building ● West End, Edinburgh ● Lauriston ● Caley Picture House ● Castle Terrace Car Park ● St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) ● Quartermile ● LOVE Gorgie Farm ● Edinburgh town walls ● The Meadows, Edinburgh ● Astley Ainslie Hospital ● West Coates ● Scottish National War Memorial ● Castle Rock (Edinburgh) ● Edinburgh Castle ● St Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh ● Dance Base ● National War Museum ● Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh – The Caledonian ● St Margaret’s Chapel, Edinburgh ● St John’s, Edinburgh ● St Catherine’s Argyle Church ● Royal Edinburgh Hospital ● Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum ● The Museum of the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and the Royal Regiment of Scotland ● Portsburgh ● Grassmarket ● Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh ● Masson Hall ● Edinburgh University Press ● Shandon, Edinburgh ● The Dunstane ● Forrest Hill drill hall ● Edinburgh University Library ● Nor Loch ● St Columba’s-by-the-Castle ● Scottish American Memorial ● Rose Theatre, Edinburgh ● Witches’ Well, Edinburgh ● Greyfriars Kirk ● Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh ● Greyfriars Kirkyard ● George Square, Edinburgh ● Ramsay Garden ● Sandy Bell’s ● The Witchery by the Castle ● Charlotte Chapel (Edinburgh) ● Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre ● Reid Concert Hall ● Sciennes ● Charlotte Square ● Camera Obscura, Edinburgh ● Alexander Russell Simpson ● Myreside Stadium ● Bristo Square ● Royal Medical Society ● Bedlam Theatre ● First of May Bookshop ● McEwan Hall ● Greyfriars Bobby Fountain ● The Hub, Edinburgh ● Teviot Row House ● Magdalen Chapel, Edinburgh ● Scottish Land Court ● Morningside, Edinburgh ● Haymarket TMD ● French Institute for Scotland ● Old Town, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh University Students’ Association ● Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh ● Jordan Burn ● George IV Bridge ● Underbelly (venue) ● The Georgian House, Edinburgh ● Metropolitan Community Church of Edinburgh ● Centre for the History of the Book ● General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland ● Church of Scotland ● Bute House ● 40 George Square ● Gorgie ● National Museum of Scotland ● The Mound ● Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo ● Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities ● Church of Scotland offices ● Koestler Parapsychology Unit ● Myreside Cricket Ground ● Informatics Forum ● National Library of Scotland ● North British Distillery ● The John Murray Archive ● Dean Bridge ● Writers’ Museum ● Woodwrae Stone ● Bullion Stone ● Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh ● Makars’ Court ● Potterrow Student Centre ● The Oxford Bar ● Lamont Harp ● National Museums Scotland ● Queen Mary Harp ● Gladstone’s Land ● Lady Stair’s Close ● Scottish National Gallery ● Advocates Library ● John Dowie’s Tavern ● Orthodox Chapel of St Andrew ● Northern Lighthouse Board ● Stay Central Hotel ● Archers’ Hall ● FloWaveTT ● Carrick Knowe ● Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland ● Saughton ● Stenhouse, Edinburgh ● St Joseph’s RC Church, Edinburgh ● Forrester, Edinburgh ● Corstorphine Hospital ● Broomhouse, Edinburgh ● Corstorphine Old Parish Church ● Nils Olav ● Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale F.C. ● HM Prison Edinburgh ● Balgreen ● Sighthill Stadium ● Wester Broom ● Parkhead, Edinburgh ● Longstone, Edinburgh ● Chesser ● Sighthill, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh Corn Exchange ● Corstorphine Hill ● Slateford Aqueduct ● Bankhead, Edinburgh ● Murrayfield Ice Rink ● Westfield, Edinburgh ● Slateford ● Kingsknowe ● Scottish Rugby Union ● Murrayfield ● Wester Hailes ● Craigcrook Castle ● Wester Hailes Education Centre ● The Calders ● Meggetland Sports Complex ● Ravelston Garden ● Ravelston ● Edinburgh United F.C. ● Clovenstone ● Roseburn ● Craigcrook ● Baberton ● Craiglockhart Castle ● Craiglockhart ● Dovecot Studios ● Craigmillar Park Church ● Blackhall, Edinburgh ● John Watson’s Institution ● Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ● Modern Two (Dean Gallery) ● Dean Village ● Dean Gardens, Edinburgh ● Craig House, Edinburgh ● Moray Estate ● Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1 ● New Club, Edinburgh ● Blackford Pond ● Redford Barracks ● Colinton ● Colinton Parish Church ● Firrhill ● Redford, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh City Hospital ● Oxgangs high rise flats ● Greenbank, Edinburgh ● Oxgangs ● Comiston ● Hunter’s Tryst ● Bonaly ● Torphin ● Juniper Green ● Hermitage of Braid ● Blackford Hill ● Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh) ● James Clerk Maxwell Foundation ● Museum on the Mound ● International Centre for Mathematical Sciences ● Royal Society of Edinburgh ● Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh ● The Dome, Edinburgh ● Advocates Close ● Luckenbooths ● St Giles’ Cathedral ● Parliament of Scotland ● Parliament House, Edinburgh ● Thistle Chapel ● Talbot Rice Gallery ● Western General Hospital ● Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre ● MRC Human Genetics Unit ● Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh ● Craigleith, Edinburgh ● Comely Bank ● Fairmilehead ● Braid Hills ● Edinburgh Central Mosque ● Word Power Books ● UK Astronomy Technology Centre ● Reid Memorial Church ● Blackford, Edinburgh ● Battle of Boroughmuir ● Burgh Muir ● Parole Board for Scotland ● Stockbridge, Edinburgh ● Merchiston ● Bruntsfield ● Union Canal (Scotland) ● Barclay Viewforth Church ● Warrender Baths ● Tynecastle Park ● Polwarth, Edinburgh ● The Grange, Edinburgh ● Centre for the Study of World Christianity ● Centre for Theology and Public Issues ● Central Library, Edinburgh ● Appleton Tower ● Sheriff Personal Injury Court ● Edinburgh Zoo ● Corstorphine ● South Gyle ● Murrayfield Stadium ● Craiglockhart Hydropathic ● Dean Cemetery ● Inner House ● Court of Session ● Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ● Summerhall ● The Dyvours Club ● Drumsheugh Baths Club ● 65 Cowgate ● West Register House ● Wester Hailes Baptist Church ● Romanes & Paterson ● Saughton Park ● St. Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh (Union Canal)
Getting to / around Slateford – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Slateford using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Slateford places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Slateford Public Transport Stations
Slateford Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dalry Road railway station
Haymarket railway station
Edinburgh Princes Street railway station
Merchiston railway station
Morningside Road railway station
Murrayfield railway station
Craiglockhart railway station
Saughton railway station
Corstorphine railway station
Pinkhill railway station
Balgreen Halt railway station
South Gyle railway station
Kingsknowe railway station
Slateford railway station
Gorgie East railway station
Wester Hailes railway station
Hailes Halt railway station
Craigleith railway station
Colinton railway station
Juniper Green railway station
Currie railway station
Blackford Hill railway station
Princes Street Gardens
Princes Street
Rose Street
Princes Street Gardens Runestone
George Street, Edinburgh
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
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Local Slateford historians & Slateford tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Slateford? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Slateford’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Slateford place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Slateford Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Slateford destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Slateford’ web pages (for example: www.visitSlateford.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Slateford places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Slateford places to visit. A unique way to experience Slateford’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Slateford as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Slateford places with Walkfo Slateford to hear history at Slateford’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Slateford has 286 places to visit in our interactive Slateford 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 Slateford, 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 Slateford places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Slateford & the surrounding areas.
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