Appendix of links: As you walk, run, cycle 1. www.cramondassociation.org.uk/ leaflets.html 3 North or drive along the 2. www.maidoftheforth.co.uk shore-line of the Forth, 3. www.facebook.com/ Edinburgh you may not realise BoardwalkBeachClub how many historic and 4. www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/ interesting places you Venues/Lauriston-Castle.aspx Shore are passing, both out 5. www.grantoncastlewalledgarden. wordpress.com Walks in the Forth estuary 6. www.grantonhub.org and on the land. From 7. www.newhavenforth.org.uk Cramond to Granton and beyond to Newhaven, people have loved, lived, fought and died.

Leaflet produced by

History Hub in conjunction with Power to the People Social History Group Spring 2017.

1. Cramond to Silverknowes 2. Silverknowes to Gasometer 3. Scottish Gas HQ to Granton (Bus 41 to Cramond Road North and (Bus to Silverknowes Parkway - 16, Square and Newhaven walk down Cramond Glebe Road) 27, 29 and 37 buses and walk down S. Buses 24,38 or 8 16,32 to West Granton Road to Marine Drive) Road near Scottish Gas HQ) More details of Roman and other remains found at Cramond Kirk can From the Boardwalk Beach Café (T) On West Granton Rd pass some small be found in leaflets1. If the tide is go right (East) along Marine Drive or shops and a deli and then Lidl (T) going out, cross to Cramond Island on Silverknowes Esplanade. Pass and the United Wire Buildings. Turn to see wartime fortifications and look Almond House Lodge (a hostel), the into Granton Park Avenue to see the on a clear day to Inchmickery and Edinburgh Caravan Club site, and renovated Madelvic House - the UK’s Inchkeith Islands and the Cow and the 1832 Muirhouse Mansion, which first purpose built car factory (opened Calves and Oxcar lighthouse as well gave the area of Muirhouse its name, 1898 factory still derelict) now a as the 3 bridges spanning the Forth. and the Georgian Craigroyston (now community hub6. On the main road Inchcolm Island with its medieval Akbar) House on turning onto West pass William Waugh (who recycle and abbey can be visited2. Shore Road. In living memory Gypsies depollute old cars) to Granton Square. Go along the beach or Promenade or Travellers used to gather near the Look north at Granton Harbour. It had (Silverknowes Esplanade) eastwards shore, hence the name given to the the world’s first roll-on, roll-off train to the Boardwalk Beach Café 3 (T) brae (slope/hill) down to the shore ferry, fishing fleets and coal exports and up to the roundabout. Take here. Pause near the Business Centre now part flats, part Marina (jointly Silverknowes Road (up to the bus where on 5th May 1544 the English managed by the Royal Forth and terminus on Silverknowes Parkway - Earl of Hertford stormed ashore before Forth Corinthian Yacht Clubs) Left 16, 27, 29 and 37 buses) or continue sacking Edinburgh and Leith. Up the along West Harbour Road see the along Lauriston Farm Road past cycle path pass the medieval walled former Customs House and training/ Toby’s Carvery (T) and round to garden and doocot of the lost Granton supply Lighthouse. Look right at the Lauriston Castle and Gardens 4 (T) Castle5. Past the round Gasometer Army Reserve Centre, formerly a hotel and Caroline Park House (private), where Queen Victoria had coffee T = Toilets when site open. Scottish Gas and the old Coal on her first trip to Scotland, and at Gas Works station on your left and cottages built for harbour and railway N.B. For bus routes and times see: Morrisons (T) on your right. (Buses 24, workers between 1835 and 1844. lothianbuses.co.uk/timetables-and- 38 or 8,16, 32) Follow this road to Newhaven7 or get maps a bus home.

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