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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Powderhall


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

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Powderhall is an area lying between Broughton Road and Warriston Road in the north of Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. Until recently it was best known for Powderhall Stadium, a greyhound racing track, which has now closed. The name derives from a gunpowder factory and associated buildings set up by the Balfour family of Pilrig in the early 18th century. When you visit Powderhall, Walkfo brings Powderhall places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Powderhall Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Powderhall


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

With 445 audio plaques & Powderhall places for you to explore in the Powderhall area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Powderhall places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Powderhall with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Powderhall PlacesYou can visit Powderhall places with Walkfo Powderhall to hear history at Powderhall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Powderhall has 445 places to visit in our interactive Powderhall 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 Powderhall, 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 Powderhall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Powderhall & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 445 audio facts unique to Powderhall places in an interactive Powderhall map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Powderhall Places Map
445 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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

  

Best Powderhall places to visit


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

Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall photo Victoria Park, Edinburgh
Victoria Park is a district in north Edinburgh south of Newhaven and lying between Trinity and Leith. The area was given Conservation Area status in March 1998.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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.
Powderhall 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 Powderhall plaques


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Powderhall has 182 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Powderhall 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 Powderhall using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Powderhall plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.