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Edinburgh, Saughton Park

Bandstand (20th Century), Garden (Period Unassigned), Park (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Saughton Park

Classification Bandstand (20th Century), Garden (Period Unassigned), Park (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Scottish National Exhibition, 1908; Saughton Rose Gardens; Saughtonhall Park; Saughtonhall Gardens; Saughton Hall Gardens; Summer House

Canmore ID 88328

Site Number NT27SW 234

NGR NT 2209 7198

NGR Description Centred NT 2209 7198

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27SW 234.00 centred 2209 7198

NT27SW 234.01 NT 22254 71864 Gorgie Road Bridge

Saughton Public Park [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1971.

ARCHITECT: Walker and Ramsay - Concert Hall, 1908.

NMRS PHOTOGRAPHS:

'Edinburgh and its Environ, Scottish National Exhibition, 1908' - photographs by Valentine and Sons.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Edinburgh, Saughton Park). Laid out 1905-14.

J Gifford, C McWilliam and D Walker 1984.

Architecture Notes

NT27SW 234 Centred 2209 7189

For the lectern sundial that was photographed at Saughtonhall House and described by A Niven Robertson in 'Old Sundials in and around Edinburgh', page 108 (Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, December 1949) and described by Dr Andrew Somerville in 1986, when it was in store in the Lothian Region Nursery at Inch House (MS 5741/4/19), see NT27SW 9.01.

See also the listed baluster sundial in Saughton Park rose garden, NT27SW 3780.

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