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to the east. The Incorporation of Baxters (bakers) in the Canongate were compelled by law to have their corn ground at the Canonmills, and during demolition work carried out in 1964 to enlarge a local filling station a stone was unearthed bearing the inscription, "The Baxters Land 1686". It is now
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The deep elliptical crescent of Eyre Crescent was built around Canonmills (or Eyre) House which was replaced in 1880-1 by a United Presbyterian Church which in turn has been replaced by a modern medical centre. A little lodge-type building on Rodney Street is the old school, where
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incorporated into a wall of the Canonmills Service Station. The only surviving building of the original village is a pantile-roofed former mill building on the corner of Eyre Place and Canon Street. Until c.1995 further remnants existed on Eyre Terrace.
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as "...one of the most remarkable and attractive places of its kind in Edinburgh", created "at considerable expense for the purpose of affording healthful and exhilarating recreation in the open air". The principal feature was the circular
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At the southern edge of the Park, in the cliff-like drop from the streets of the New Town, lies the northern end of the Scotland Street Tunnel which once provided an underground rail link to Canal Street Station on the site of present-day
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The bridge (generally called Canonmills Bridge) linking Canonmills to Inverleith Row was built in 1767, its single arch replaced by three arches in 1840. It was widened in 1896.
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to the south east, used to be a popular sporting arena. With the final draining of the loch in 1865 it became the site of the Royal Patent Gymnasium, described by
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c.1796 (which is also one of the earliest paintings of this area). The loch survived until the late 19th century, at which point it was infilled and built over.
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who operated a mill here from the 12th century. It is shown pictorially as a cluster of buildings, three of which have waterwheels, on the 1560
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enabling up to 100 patrons at a time to swing by the hands "over a distance of 130 feet from one trapeze to the other", the
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Z Ashford, The Lands Of Warriston in The Book Of The Old Edinburgh Club, New Series vol.3, Edinburgh 1994, p.10
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place of worship for German residents of Edinburgh and those that were building the Forth Bridge. During the
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which could seat 600 rowers embarking and disembarking at four separate piers. Other attractions were the
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In winter this small man-made loch was used for curling. Canonmills Curling Society were painted by
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had his granite yard at Canonmills Bridge and lived opposite, at 5 Brandon Street.
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Formerly a small village, Canonmills owes its origins and name, in the same way as
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congregation. The building was constructed from 1878-1881, and was originally a
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in Edinburgh moved into the building renamed it Bellevue Chapel.
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church located in Rodney Street. The church is an independent
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Index

Bellevue Chapel


Edinburgh
Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden
Inverleith
Stockbridge
Bellevue
The Canongate
Holyrood Abbey
Siege of Leith
Water of Leith
Silvermills

David Allan
George V
Haugh
James Grant
Trapeze
Velocipede

Waverley Station
Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes


Sir Walter Scott
Victorian gothic

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