Welcome to Visit Saughton Places 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.
Visiting Saughton Walkfo Preview 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.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 122 audio facts unique to Saughton places in an interactive Saughton map you can explore.”
Walkfo Saughton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Saughton
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
27 plaques hereSaughton 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.
Experience Saughton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Saughton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Saughton’s 122 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Saughton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Saughton Map App
Our visit Saughton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Saughton & 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 Saughton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Saughton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Saughton area at LONG:-3.2680555555556, LAT:55.929444444444.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Saughton, 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.
Our Saughton accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Saughton.
Things to do & visit in Saughton / surrounding areas
● Leamington Lift Bridge ● Holy Corner ● Greenhill, Edinburgh ● Burghmuirhead ● Merchiston Tower ● Church Hill, Edinburgh ● Dalry, Edinburgh ● Dominion Cinema ● Haymarket, Edinburgh ● St Peter’s Church, Edinburgh ● Ardmillan ● Gorgie-Dalry ● Falcon Hall ● West End, Edinburgh ● St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) ● LOVE Gorgie Farm ● West Coates ● Royal Edinburgh Hospital ● Shandon, Edinburgh ● The Dunstane ● Myreside Stadium ● Morningside, Edinburgh ● Haymarket TMD ● Gorgie ● Myreside Cricket Ground ● North British Distillery ● Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh ● 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 ● Gogarloch ● Scottish Rugby Union ● Murrayfield ● Wester Hailes ● Craigcrook Castle ● Wester Hailes Education Centre ● The Calders ● Craigievar Estate ● Drumbrae ● Meggetland Sports Complex ● Clermiston ● Ravelston Garden ● Ravelston ● Edinburgh United F.C. ● Clovenstone ● Roseburn ● Scott Russell Aqueduct ● The Gyle Shopping Centre ● Craigcrook ● Maybury ● Baberton ● Craiglockhart Castle ● Craiglockhart ● Barnton Quarry ● East Craigs ● Dovecot Studios ● Craigmillar Park Church ● Blackhall, Edinburgh ● John Watson’s Institution ● Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ● Modern Two (Dean Gallery) ● Craig House, Edinburgh ● Redford Barracks ● Colinton ● Colinton Parish Church ● Firrhill ● Redford, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh City Hospital ● Oxgangs high rise flats ● Greenbank, Edinburgh ● Oxgangs ● Bonaly ● Torphin ● Juniper Green ● Woodhall House, Edinburgh ● Parkgrove ● Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh ● Bughtlin ● European Energy Centre ● European Centre of Technology ● Renewable Energy Institute ● Heart of Midlothian W.F.C. ● Hermiston, Edinburgh ● Merchiston ● Bruntsfield ● Tynecastle Park ● Polwarth, Edinburgh ● Edinburgh Zoo ● Corstorphine ● South Gyle ● Murrayfield Stadium ● Craiglockhart Hydropathic ● Dean Cemetery ● Wester Hailes Baptist Church ● Saughton Park ● St. Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh (Union Canal)
Getting to / around Saughton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Saughton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Saughton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Saughton Public Transport Stations
Saughton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dalry Road railway station
Haymarket 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
Edinburgh Park railway station
Wester Hailes railway station
Hailes Halt railway station
Craigleith railway station
Colinton railway station
Juniper Green railway station
Currie railway station
Edinburgh Gateway station
Gogar railway station, NBR
House o’Hill Halt railway station
Tram
Saughton tram stop is adjacently south of the main Glasgow to Edinburgh railway line. The stop is close to the junction of Broomhouse Drive and Saughon Road North.
Trying to encourage visitors to Saughton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Saughton’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 Saughton 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 Saughton 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 Saughton 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-Saughton’ web pages (for example: www.visitSaughton.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 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.
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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Trying to encourage visitors to Saughton?