Visit Oxgangs Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Oxgangs

  

Oxgangs Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Oxgangs

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Oxgangs history

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The building of the Oxgangs area started in around 1953/54; before that (with the exception of Colinton Mains) there had only been a number of prefab houses and several farms. The area consists of large public housing schemes aimed at low to middle income groups.

Oxgangs etymology

The name derives from “oxgang”, an old unit of land measurement. Skene in Celtic Scotland says: Skene means ‘oxgang’, an old measurement unit. The name of Skene is Skene, a Celtic word for land measuring.

You can visit Oxgangs places with Walkfo Oxgangs to hear history at Oxgangs’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Oxgangs has 113 places to visit in our interactive Oxgangs 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 Oxgangs, 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 Oxgangs places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Oxgangs & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 113 audio facts unique to Oxgangs places in an interactive Oxgangs map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Oxgangs Places Map
113 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Oxgangs places to visit

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

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.

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