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Dalry House is the oldest building in Dalry, built in 1661. With the exception of the mill the area was primarily agricultural land, lying outside the Old Town of Edinburgh. The former mansion house, Dalry House, built about 1661 still exists. The house, once set in extensive grounds, is now surrounded by tenements and is located on Orwell Place.
Gorgie-Dalry is the name given to the joint community council, representing Gorgie and Dalry [1] in the west of Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. The area also incorporates Tynecastle and parts of Ardmillan .
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 ...
English: Up empty stock train for Princes Street Station, passing Dalry Road Locomotive Depot. View SW, towards Carstairs etc.; ex-Caledonian Carstairs - Edinburgh Princes Street main line, which was closed on 6/9/65 from Slateford Junction and the trains diverted to Waverley via Haymarket, the Depot being closed on 3/10/65.
Gorgie developed at a slower pace than nearby Dalry, allowing the continued operation of the 10 acres (4.0 ha) Gorgie pig farm until 1885. Robb's Loan is named after Robert Robb and his son James who farmed at Gorgie Mains for much of the nineteenth century.
Dalry may refer to: St John's Town of Dalry, or just Dalry, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; Dalry, Edinburgh, an area of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland; Dalry, North Ayrshire, a town in Scotland
Dalry Road railway station served the area of Dalry, Edinburgh, Scotland from 1900 to 1962 on the Leith Branch. History The ...
1590: First paper mill in Scotland opens at Dalry Mills (near Roseburn) 1590: Entry and coronation of Anne of Denmark. c.1590: Riddle's Court, off the Lawnmarket, built by Bailie John MacMorran, reputedly Edinburgh's richest merchant 1591: Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell escapes from imprisonment in the castle, and plots the Raid of Holyrood