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839: 31: 48: 84: 1448: 91: 55: 425:' mix, comprising four-in-a-block apartments with the upper flats accessed via a common stairway in the middle of the building, two-level homes in terrace rows, and detached bungalows. Modern properties have sporadically filled most spaces which once existed. There is an eponymous community association with its own premises and orchard, and a 197: 405:
and Ellersley Road known as Western Corner (at this point Corstorphine Road has the secondary name of Western Terrace) towards the mansion, and most secondary streets also took this name. A convenience store is situated at the other end of Saughtonhall Drive where it forms a V-junction with the
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As of the early 2020s, the neighbourhood was split in terms of catchment zones for both public schooling paths, though along different divisions: the majority of streets are allocated to non-denominational Balgreen Primary (feeding to
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when the city expanded amid housing reform. An explanation is that the main thoroughfare in the area was named Saughtonhall Drive when it was laid out due to it running south-west from its origin at the crossroads of
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which has been in situ since the neighbourhood's establishment in 1929. In the north of the area in close proximity to one another on Saughton Crescent are two nursery schools, a medical centre and a
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Although named after Saughton Hall, a local historic country house, the neighbourhood is not located where the mansion stood – that was at
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about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the south, while the area that became Saughtonhall was farmland until after the
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to the east, connected by several footbridges which now also incorporate flooding defences. It is within the
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further south. A prominent landmark at that junction is the 1920s depository for
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The closest public transport connection in the south of the neighbourhood is
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Edinburgh, Corstorphine Road, Statue Of Alan Breck & David Balfour
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spw040202 SCOTLAND (1932). Saughtonhall Housing Estate, Edinburgh
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slightly older Balgreen Road, which in turn continues to
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Housing in the area is primarily an inter-war period '
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Saughtonhall is located in the City of Edinburgh council area
City of Edinburgh council area
Saughtonhall is located in Scotland
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55°56′29″N 3°14′57″W / 55.94151°N 3.24911°W / 55.94151; -3.24911
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