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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in West Coates


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

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West Coates or Wester Coates is a residential district of central Edinburgh. It is on the A8, in proximity to Haymarket railway station and Roseburn, west of the city centre. The name derives from Coates Hall on Rosebery Crescent to the east. The character is very different north and south of the main road. When you visit West Coates, Walkfo brings West Coates places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

West Coates Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about West Coates


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With 458 audio plaques & West Coates places for you to explore in the West Coates area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best West Coates places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

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Visit West Coates PlacesYou can visit West Coates places with Walkfo West Coates to hear history at West Coates’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo West Coates has 458 places to visit in our interactive West Coates 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 West Coates, 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 West Coates places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to West Coates & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 458 audio facts unique to West Coates places in an interactive West Coates map you can explore.”

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458 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  West Coates historic spots

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

  

Best West Coates places to visit


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

West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates 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.
West Coates photo 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.
West Coates 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.

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West Coates has 189 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo West Coates 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 West Coates using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each West Coates plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.