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Title: Walks near Edinburgh

Author: Margaret Warrender

Release date: July 29, 2015 [eBook #49548]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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WALKS NEAR EDINBURGH

WALKS
NEAR EDINBURGH.

BY
MARGARET WARRENDER

With Illustrations by the Author

"Haud fast by the past"

EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS
1890

(All Rights Reserved.)

MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

TO MY GRAND-AUNT

LADY JOHN SCOTT

FROM WHOM MANY OF THESE STORIES ARE DERIVED

THIS BOOK

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  PAGE
ARCHWAY AT BRUNTISFIELD, Frontispiece
BRUNTISFIELD HOUSE, 12
BATTLE-STONE AT COMISTON, 26
CRAIGLOCKHART TOWER, 32
LIBERTON TOWER, 51
THE INCH, 71
DOORWAY AT PEFFER MILL, 78
CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE, 81
DUDDINGSTON LOCH, 99
LOCHEND, 123
TOMB IN CORSTORPHINE CHURCH, 130
THE CAT-STANE, 136
SAUGHTON BRIDGE, 142
CAROLINE PARK, 149
GATEWAY AT CAROLINE PARK, 153
CARVED STONE AT LAURISTON CASTLE, 156
CONTENTS.
        PAGE
WALK I.  
Bruntisfield—St. Margaret's Convent—Canaan Lane—Hermitage of Braid—Morton Hall—Dreghorn—Colinton—Craiglockhart—Craighouse— Merchiston Castle—The Wryteshouses, 9-42

WALK II.
St. Roque—The Grange—Blackford—Liberton—St. Catherine's Well—Gilmerton—The Burnt Grange—The Drum—Moredun—The Inch, 43-73

WALK III.
Cameron Toll—Prestonfield—Peffer Mill—Craigmillar— Edmonstone—Niddrie—Duddingston—St. Leonards, 75-107

WALK IV.
St. Margaret's Well—St. Anthony's Chapel—Muschat's Cairn—Jock's Lodge—Portobello—Restalrig, 109-125

WALK V.
Corstorphine—The Cat-Stane—Gogar—Hatton— Saughton Hall—Dalry, 127-144

WALK VI.
Warriston—Caroline Park—Muirhouse—Lauriston Castle—Cramond—Braehead—Cammo—Barnton— Craigcrook—Ravelston, 145-167

Index,
169-181