Baberton
Baberton, also known as Baberton Mains, is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located south-west of the Edinburgh City Bypass and Wester Hailes and south of the Shotts Line railway line.
Baberton, also known as Baberton Mains, is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located south-west of the Edinburgh City Bypass and Wester Hailes and south of the Shotts Line railway line. The village of Juniper Green is situated to the south of Baberton and Baberton Golf Course is to the west.
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Worth seeing in and around Baberton
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and was subsequently granted university status by royal charter in 1966.
2.2 km · university in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh Napier University is a public university in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier Technical College, the predecessor of the university, was founded in 1964, taking its name from 16th-century Scottish mathematician and philosopher John Napier.
3.8 km · university in Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an 82-acre non-profit zoological park in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The zoo is positioned on the south-facing slopes of Corstorphine Hill, giving extensive views of the city.
3.5 km · zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Lennox Tower
Lennox Tower is a ruinous fifteenth-century tower house at Lymphoy, near the Water of Leith, between Balerno and Currie, 11 kilometres south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
3.4 km · tower house in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Riccarton
Riccarton is an area in Edinburgh's Green Belt, in Scotland. It is mainly undeveloped, with much farmland and few houses.
2.3 km · locality to the south-west of Edinburgh, the site of Heriot-Watt University's main campus · Wikipedia - 06Craiglockhart Castle
Craiglockhart Castle is a ruined tower house in the Craiglockhart district of Edinburgh, Scotland.
3 km · castle in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Slateford Aqueduct
The Slateford Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the Water of Leith at Slateford, Edinburgh, Scotland. Completed in 1822, it has eight arches and spans a length of 500 feet.
2.6 km · bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, carries the Union Canal across Water of Leith Walkway · Wikipedia - 08Craiglockhart Hill
Craiglockhart Hill is a combination of two summits, Easter and Wester Craiglockhart, in the suburb of Craiglockhart, Edinburgh. Easter Craiglockhart Hill's summit is 158m high.
3.2 km · hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09The Gyle Shopping Centre
The Gyle Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in the South Gyle area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The main centre has two anchor tenants, Marks & Spencer and Morrisons, at opposite ends of the shopping centre.
3.5 km · shopping mall in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Aerial cableway. This 20-km long cableway was built in the 1930s by the mining industry to carry ore between Havelock mine in Swaziland and Barberton. However in early 2011, thieves looking to steal metal from the cableway base resulted in the entire 20-km system collapsing. As a result there will soon be not much left of this artifact.
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Things to do
De Brug Ostrich Farm, Just outside town on the road to Kaapsehoop,. Tue-Sun from 10AM.
- 01Songimvelo Game Reserve
This reserve is in the Barberton Mountain lands and is the Mpumalanga Parks Board's largest reserve, extending over 500 km².
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Getting to Baberton
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 7 km · Glasgow (GLA), 72 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 93 km
- Stations
- South Gyle railway station, 2.9 km · Kingsknowe railway station, 1.5 km · Edinburgh Park railway station, 2.2 km · Wester Hailes railway station, 300 m · Slateford railway station, 3 km
- Glasgow → Baberton61 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Baberton95 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–14
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Baberton148 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Baberton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Baberton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextDay trips out of town are easily made from the railway and bus stations, see Edinburgh#Go next for suggestions.
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Next door to Baberton
Baberton is 7 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Balgreensuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Broomhousesuburb in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1.8 km