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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 15.85 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 4h 50 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 115 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 118 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 61 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 10 m
  • ⚐
    District: Edinburgh 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 55.966435° / W 3.265806°
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 55 m - Start on Silverknowes View
  2. 2 : km 0.16 - alt. 53 m - Turn sharp left
  3. 3 : km 0.19 - alt. 54 m - Turn left onto Silverknowes Road East
  4. 4 : km 0.19 - alt. 54 m - Turn sharp left
  5. 5 : km 0.22 - alt. 55 m - Turn left
  6. 6 : km 0.24 - alt. 55 m - Turn slight left onto Blackhall Path
  7. 7 : km 1.98 - alt. 46 m - Turn slight right onto Roseburn Path
  8. 8 : km 3.5 - alt. 55 m - Turn left
  9. 9 : km 3.55 - alt. 55 m - Turn right onto Wester Coates Terrace
  10. 10 : km 3.68 - alt. 49 m - Turn left
  11. 11 : km 3.71 - alt. 50 m - Turn right
  12. 12 : km 3.71 - alt. 50 m - Turn left onto West Coates
  13. 13 : km 4.51 - alt. 55 m - Keep left onto Haymarket
  14. 14 : km 4.9 - alt. 60 m - Keep left onto Shandwick Place
  15. 15 : km 5.33 - alt. 60 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 5.35 - alt. 61 m - Turn left
  17. 17 : km 6.16 - alt. 43 m - Turn right onto Learmonth Terrace
  18. 18 : km 6.46 - alt. 26 m - Turn left onto Dean Street
  19. 19 : km 6.78 - alt. 15 m - Turn right onto Deanhaugh Street
  20. 20 : km 7.31 - alt. 37 m - Turn right onto Howe Street
  21. 21 : km 7.6 - alt. 57 m - Turn left onto Queen Street
  22. 22 : km 8.11 - alt. 60 m - Keep left onto York Place
  23. 23 : km 8.47 - alt. 52 m - Turn sharp left onto Broughton Street
  24. 24 : km 8.81 - alt. 33 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Mansfield Place
  25. 25 : km 9.04 - alt. 30 m - Turn left
  26. 26 : km 9.05 - alt. 30 m - Turn left onto Bellevue
  27. 27 : km 10.33 - alt. 24 m - Turn left onto Inverleith Place
  28. 28 : km 10.88 - alt. 24 m - Turn left onto Arboretum Place
  29. 29 : km 11.13 - alt. 21 m - Turn right
  30. 30 : km 11.43 - alt. 20 m - Turn right
  31. 31 : km 11.44 - alt. 20 m - Turn slight left
  32. 32 : km 11.45 - alt. 20 m - Turn right
  33. 33 : km 11.66 - alt. 20 m - Turn left onto East Fettes Avenue
  34. 34 : km 12.04 - alt. 17 m - Turn right onto Comely Bank Road
  35. 35 : km 12.52 - alt. 21 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Craigleith Road
  36. 36 : km 13.59 - alt. 47 m - Turn right onto South Groathill Avenue
  37. 37 : km 13.86 - alt. 45 m - Turn left
  38. 38 : km 13.91 - alt. 45 m - Turn right onto Blackhall Path
  39. 39 : km 15.62 - alt. 55 m - Keep right
  40. 40 : km 15.64 - alt. 55 m - Turn right
  41. 41 : km 15.7 - alt. 53 m - Turn sharp right onto Silverknowes Road East
  42. S/E : km 15.85 - alt. 55 m

Useful Information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

Other walks in the area

Walking Linear from Barnton to Wester Hailes, Edimburgh

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↔12.23 km ↗+56 m ↘-21 m ◔3h 40 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

The aim of the walk is to enjoy Edinburgh’s suburbs, outlying areas, and Green Belt setting (while it still exists) by making use of footpaths, tracks, disused railway lines and riverbanks, ascending mine tips, passing alongside farmland, docks and seafronts, and heading through quiet housing-estates as well as shopping-centres and University campus. This one-way walk goes from Wester Hailes to Kaimes and represents the last leg of a stroll around Edinburgh.

Walking From Cramond Brig to Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh Circumnavigation

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↔15.60 km ↗+39 m ↘-48 m ◔4h 35 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

Linear from Cramond Brig to Ocean Terminal, via River Almond, Cramond, Silverknowes, Granton Point, Royston House, Granton Harbour, Primrose Bank, Newhaven, West Breakwater & Western Harbour. This is leg 5/5 of the Edinburgh Circumnavigation Walk.

Walking Wester Hailes to Kaimes, Edimburgh

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↔12.10 km ↗+128 m ↘-80 m ◔3h 50 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

The aim of the walk is to enjoy Edinburgh’s suburbs, outlying areas, and Green Belt setting (while it still exists) by making use of footpaths, tracks, disused railway lines and riverbanks, ascending mine tips, passing alongside farmland, docks and seafronts, and heading through quiet housing-estates as well as shopping-centres and University campus. This one-way walk goes from Wester Hailes to Kaimes and represents the leg1/5 of a stroll around Edinburgh.

Walking Stroll around Edinburgh

Walker
↔59.64 km ↗+319 m ↘-330 m ◔5 days ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

A 35 km stroll around the outer area of Edinburgh. A walk around the outskirts of Edinburgh. The circuit has been designed as a quiet, almost traffic-free, scenic along quiet footpaths and lanes through suburban Edinburgh. It passes through markedly different socio-economic districts. One of Edinburgh’s great attractions is that socio-geographically it is quite different to that of most cities.

Walking Leith to Barnton, Edinburgh

Walker
↔13.14 km ↗+107 m ↘-69 m ◔4h 05 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

The aim of the walk is to enjoy Edinburgh’s suburbs, outlying areas, and Green Belt setting (while it still exists) by making use of footpaths, tracks, disused railway lines and riverbanks, ascending mine tips, passing alongside farmland, docks and seafronts, and heading through quiet housing-estates as well as shopping-centres and University campus. This one-way walk goes from Wester Hailes to Kaimes and represents the leg 4/5 of a stroll around Edinburgh.

Walking Edinburgh Circumnavigation

Walker
↔71.26 km ↗+542 m ↘-536 m ◔5 days ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

Circular route (in five sections) around the outskirts of Edinburgh. Walk around the outskirts of Edinburgh and through its hinterland. The full circuit has been designed as a quiet, almost traffic-free, scenic route along quiet footpaths and lanes through outer Edinburgh and its ever-varied suburban, post-industrial and Greenbelt/rural hinterland.

Walking From Ocean Terminal to Whitecraig Village, Edinburgh Circumnavigation

Walker
↔15.08 km ↗+32 m ↘-3 m ◔4h 25 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

Linear via Docks, Swing Bridge, Leith Links, Sewage Works, Portobello, Joppa, Musselburgh and River Esk. Walk around the outskirts of Edinburgh and through its hinterland.The aim of this walk is to follow the coast to Musselburgh, while avoiding busy roads and streets. This is leg 1/5 of the Edinburgh Circumnavigation Walk.

Walking Outlying tops of Arthur’s Seat, Edimburgh

Walker
↔12.19 km ↗+214 m ↘-214 m ◔4h 05 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Edinburgh

The route is following a shallow valley between the Blackford Hill and Church Hill / Greenhill ridges. It brings you to a great panorama over the whole of Edimburgh. A walk which can be conveniently shortened by beginning and ending at the Royal Commonwealth Pool.

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