Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
In 2023, someone posted a video of “going to the toilet in a Scottish Wetherspoon,” a mission that takes them past Edinburgh Castle, Angus cows, and to the summit of Arthur’s Seat, a local ...
The town was originally part of the Town of Providence, but the area quickly grew. In 1801, the settlers decided that the town was big enough for a name of its own, and was named Northfield at an informal meeting held on March 13, 1801. In 1808, it was renamed Edinburgh because another Northfield was discovered in New York.
Haymarket (Scots: Heymercat, [1] Scottish Gaelic: Margadh an Fheòir) [2] is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland.It is in the west of the city centre and is the junction of several main roads, notably Dalry Road (which leads south-west to Gorgie Road and the M8 motorway to Glasgow), Corstorphine Road (leading west to the M8 and the M9 for Stirling and the north), and Shandwick Place (leading east ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
During 1842, Haymarket railway station was opened as the original terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.The station represented the launch of a new age of travelling opportunities to the Scottish capital, being the first intercity route to be built and offering a previously unheard of journey time of two and a half hours between Scotland's two largest cities. [5]
Shop the Black Friday deals still live on Amazon: Save on Apple, Samsung, Playstation, Keurig, Bissell and more
The engineer Thomas Bouch was engaged to design a route [note 2] from the complex of lines west of Haymarket to Portobello, and based on his work, an authorising act of Parliament for the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway was given royal assent as the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c ...