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Bonaly

Bonaly is an area on the south-western outskirts of Edinburgh and the northern slopes of the Pentland Hills, lying within the Parish of Colinton.

Bonaly
Bonaly · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Bonaly is an area on the south-western outskirts of Edinburgh and the northern slopes of the Pentland Hills, lying within the Parish of Colinton. It is a mix of mainly post-war housing, woodland, pasture-land and heather moorland. Bonaly Burn has its sources in the hills above Bonaly and flows towards Oxgangs, where it becomes the Braid Burn. The Edinburgh City Bypass passes through Bonaly.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bonaly

8 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.

  1. 01
    Edinburgh 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.

    3.5 km · university in Scotland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Caerketton Hill

    Caerketton Hill is a hill in the Pentland Hills range of Scotland. Standing at 478 m, it is at the northeast end of the approximately 25 km long chain of hills on the border between the council areas of the City of Edinburgh and Midlothian.

    2.6 km · hill in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Glencorse Reservoir

    Glencorse Reservoir is a reservoir in Midlothian, Scotland, two miles west of Glencorse, in the Pentland Hills. It is retained by an earth dam, and it was built between 1820 and 1824 by James Jardine to provide water for the mills of Auchendinny, Milton Bridge and Glencorse, and to supply drinking water to the citizens of Edinburgh.

    3.8 km · lake in Midlothian, Scotland, UK, outflows to Glencorse Burn · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Craiglockhart Castle

    Craiglockhart Castle is a ruined tower house in the Craiglockhart district of Edinburgh, Scotland.

    2.9 km · castle in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Slateford 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.

    3.1 km · bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, carries the Union Canal across Water of Leith Walkway · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Craiglockhart 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.

    2.8 km · hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Colinton Parish Church

    Colinton Parish Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The church building is located in Dell Road, Colinton, Edinburgh, Scotland next to the Water of Leith.

    1.4 km · church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wester Hailes Baptist Church

    Wester Hailes Baptist Church is a church in the Wester Hailes area of west Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1971.

    2.1 km · church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bonaly

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 9 km · Glasgow (GLA), 73 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 94 km
Stations
Kingsknowe railway station, 2.6 km · Slateford railway station, 3.5 km · Wester Hailes railway station, 2.6 km · Curriehill railway station, 3.8 km · Craiglockhart railway station, 4 km
  • Glasgow → Bonaly
    10 km · quickest by road, 32 min · £1–1.5
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bonaly
    38 km · quickest by road, 53 min · £4–5
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bonaly
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bonaly

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 Bonaly. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDay trips out of town are easily made from the railway and bus stations, see Edinburgh#Go next for suggestions.

From Wikivoyage: Edinburgh/New Town, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    123 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    134 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    160 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    220 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    224 km

If you know how people move in Bonaly – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bonaly

Bonaly is 7 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Currievillage in Edinburgh, Scotland3.1 km
  • Colintonsuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Wester Hailessuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.8 km
  • Broomhousesuburb in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.9 km
  • Kingsknowesuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • Merchiston Castle Schoolindependent boarding school for boys in the suburb of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1.8 km