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Newcraighall

  • Scottish Gaelic: Talla na Creige Nuadh

  • Scots: Newcraighauch




Newcraighall is located in Edinburgh

Newcraighall

Newcraighall



Newcraighall shown within Edinburgh

Council area
  • City of Edinburgh
Lieutenancy area
  • Edinburgh
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MUSSELBURGH
Postcode district EH21
Post town EDINBURGH
Postcode district EH15
Dialling code 0131
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish

EU Parliament Scotland
UK Parliament
  • Edinburgh East
Scottish Parliament
  • Edinburgh Southern


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Scotland

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55°56′04″N 3°05′20″W / 55.934469°N 3.0888°W / 55.934469; -3.0888Coordinates: 55°56′04″N 3°05′20″W / 55.934469°N 3.0888°W / 55.934469; -3.0888

Newcraighall (Scots: Newcraighauch,[1]Scottish Gaelic: Talla na Creige Nuadh)[2] is a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and closed in the 1960s, work transferring to nearby Bilston Glen and in particular the last-to-close (1998) Monktonhall pit. The village had a church, a Co-op and a miners' club (demolished after a fire on 15 July 2009) and bowling green. Newcraighall now plays host to an out-of-town shopping complex, Fort Kinnaird, previously known as The Fort (south of Newcraighall Road) and Kinnaird Park (north).


Newcraighall railway station is on the newly reopened Borders Railway which runs from Edinburgh to Tweedbank and was formerly part of the Waverley Route to Carlisle its closure (Closed 5 January 1969) following the Beeching Report in 1963.


Newcraighall was the setting for the film My Childhood by Bill Douglas, There is a plaque to Bill Douglas in the village. The village also contains the bridge that is the famous scene from the film. The village also contains a sculpture by Jake Harvey which celebrates the mining tradition of the area. On Newcraighall Road is the Craigmillar Arts Centre, with a Woman of Achievement plaque for Helen Crummy, who lived in Newcraighall for many years.



References




  1. ^ List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic – NewsNetScotland


  2. ^ Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland



External links



  • Fort Kinnaird, Newcraighall, Edinburgh

  • Google map showing local paths

  • Local History









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