Signposts, Hawkhill

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Signposts, Hawkhill

Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 3 Feb 2020

Urban Eden! The road on the left, Lochend Butterfly Way was the trackbed of the railway between Waverley and Leith Central which hung on as a freight line into the 1970s. It was a relatively late addition to the network and does not appear on 1890s maps, when this was agricultural land.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.963144
Longitude
-3.163086