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District in Scotland
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Impressive gardens with a large collection. Great place to wander around on a sunny day, or to sit and have a picnic. Highlights include the Rock Garden; the 165-m-long herbaceous border, backed by a huge, century-old beech hedge, and the Palm House, the tallest of its kind in Britain. The Palm House reopened in October 2026 after a big restoration, and you can only see it on pre-booked tours. (However all the other glasshouses are closed for rebuilding, and a small section of the garden is only open at weekends.) A number of sculptures, including two by Barbara Hepworth, are displayed around the gardens. The east gate has a bus service but the west gate is grander, with the John Hope Gateway building containing the restaurant, shop, and exhibitions. Botanic Cottage is an education centre in a house that was built in 1764-5, designed by John Adam and James Craig and moved to the garden in 2014. They also run the gardens at Benmore near Oban, Dawyck above Peebles, and Logan near Stranraer.
Small art gallery and artists studios in the former co-op bakery. The gallery has regular exhibitions of modern art. The studios are open.on one weekend in mid-August and another in late November.
Boarding school in an impressive building in the style of a French Château by David Bryce built between 1863 and 1869. It can be seen from far away. Not open for tourists - the best view is looking through the fence from Carrington Road.
Volunteer-run museum within McDonald Road fire station. History of Scottish firefighting from the era of rival commercial fire companies, through early wooden fire engines to more recent appliances.
"The Accies" were promoted in 2026 and now play rugby union in the Premiership, the amateur top tier in Scotland. Their home ground Raeburn Place (capacity 5000) staged the world's first rugby international on 27 March 1871. Scotland scored two tries and England scored one, so the result was 1-0 - a "try" in those days only gave you a chance to kick at goal.
This is the usual home ground for the Scottish national team, the Saltires. They play 50-over and 20-over matches but not five-day Tests. Gen!us Grange play in the domestic leagues.
Council-run Victorian swimming pool with partial glass roof. Also has a gym and sauna.
Park with a couple of children's play areas and many quiet benches to sit on. A path through an old railway tunnel links the park with Cannonmills Tesco, making this an ideal lunch spot.
Large park with several sports pitches for rugby, football and cricket, and public tennis courts. The south of the park has a pond divided into a wildlife area popular with swans, and a boating pond which is often used for model boats. The banked area near the pond offers good views over the New Town of the Castle, and there is a small floral area in the Sundial Garden.
Lovely old trad basement pub, known as much for its ale as its food. Standard pub-grub menu, but quality and prices are a notch higher.
Innovative Scots fare in a restaurant with one Michelin Star.
Restaurant, pub, beer garden and small hotel in a house built in 1832.
Upmarket gastro pub with modern Scots cuisine, slick service. They also run the Michelin-starred Kitchin in Leith.
Rave reviews for their Scottish fine dining. The name means "barley".
Friendly pub with bar meals, including gluten free.
Stockbridge branch of an Edinburgh chain of cafés, serving a fairly standard range of sandwiches, but interesting seasonal cakes and bakes.
About 30 flavours of ice cream from Stewart Tower in Perthshire, and a selection of confectionery. The shop was opened as a Gentemen's Hairdressers in 1896 and continued as a barbers until 2024; the shop has only had small alterations for its present use.
Trad bar with a good range of ales and whiskies, and a limited food selection.
Pleasant Victorian terrace B&B half a mile from Princes Street.
Offers a wide range or 1- and 2-bedroom serviced apartments for short term lettings, in a building near the Water of Leith.
Chain hotel in an ugly black box building, comfy enough. The main draw is the large gym and pool, non-residents can get day passes for this. It has a car park (£5 per day midweek), restaurant and bar, and frequent buses into town.
Cosy friendly B&B by Goldenacres sports ground. Frequent buses to town centre. It's owned by Ardleigh House next door, which gets poor reviews and is overpriced.
Specialising in books by women writers.
Jewellery designer whose work reflects the lore and natural world of her native Orkney.
An independent record shop. They sell a range of collectible records, mainly used vinyl but also some new CDs and box sets.
Specialist cheesemonger with a range of farmhouse and artisan cheeses from all over Scotland, the UK and Europe. Their other branches are in Morningside, Victoria St, Glasgow and St Andrews.
Ironmonger and locksmith. If you like the brass door furniture you've seen on the traditional townhouses in the New Town, this is the place to pick up the knobs, knockers, numbers and letter-boxes you need to make your own front door look the same. A real treasure-trove of a shop.
Edinburgh Bus Station is in New Town just under a mile south of Canonmills, and the main railway station is a further 200 yards south, walking distance unless you're laden.
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