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Clermiston

Clermiston is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, to the west of the city and to the immediate north of Corstorphine, on the western slopes of Corstorphine Hill.

Clermiston
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The place

Clermiston is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, to the west of the city and to the immediate north of Corstorphine, on the western slopes of Corstorphine Hill. Clermiston estate, built from 1954 onwards, was part of a major 1950s house-building programme to tackle overcrowding in Leith and Gorgie. The area is now home to more than 20,000 people, and abuts onto Drumbrae, Clerwood and Corstorphine.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Clermiston

10 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
    Murrayfield Stadium

    Murrayfield Stadium is a rugby union stadium located in the area of the same name in Edinburgh, Scotland. The stadium is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and serves as its headquarters, and is the national stadium of the Scotland national rugby union team.

    3.3 km · rugby stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tynecastle Park

    Tynecastle Park, also known as Tynecastle Stadium or colloquially as Tynie, is a football stadium in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, which is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Heart of Midlothian. A UEFA category four stadium, it has also hosted Scotland international matches, and been used as a neutral venue for Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup semi-finals.

    3.9 km · Football stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Edinburgh 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.

    1.8 km · zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lauriston Castle

    Lauriston Castle is a 16th-century tower house with 19th-century extensions overlooking the Firth of Forth, in Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies on Cramond Road South, between Cramond, Davidson's Mains, and Silverknowes.

    1.9 km · 16th-century tower house in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Edinburgh Rugby Stadium

    The Edinburgh Rugby Stadium, officially known as the Hive Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a rugby union stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the home of Edinburgh Rugby, one of Scotland's two professional rugby clubs.

    3.1 km · rugby stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Corstorphine Hill

    Corstorphine Hill is a low ridge-shaped hill rising above the western suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. Although there has been residential and commercial development on its lower slopes, especially in the south and west, most of the hill is occupied by a local nature reserve, consisting of extensive broadleaf woodland, accessible to the public.

    1.1 km · hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cramond Lioness

    The Cramond Lioness is a Roman-era sculpture recovered in 1997 from the mouth of the River Almond at Cramond in Edinburgh, Scotland. The sculpture, one of the most important Roman finds in Scotland for decades, was discovered by ferryman Robert Graham.

    2.8 km · Roman statue discovered in 1996/1997 at Cramond Ferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Craigcrook Castle

    Craigcrook Castle is a 6,701 square feet castle giving its name to the Craigcrook district of Edinburgh, about 3 miles west of the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. The castle is primarily of the 17th century, though with later additions.

    1.4 km · castle in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ainslie Park

    Ainslie Park, also known as the Vanloq Community Stadium due to sponsorship, is a football stadium located in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish League Two club Spartans and the club's women's team in the Scottish Women's Premier League.

    3.9 km · football stadium Edinburgh, Scotland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cramond Roman Fort

    Cramond Roman Fort is a Roman-Era archaeological site at Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland. The settlement may be the "Rumabo" listed in the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography.

    2.5 km · Roman fort 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.

Go there

Getting to Clermiston

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 5 km · Glasgow (GLA), 72 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 95 km
Stations
South Gyle railway station, 2.2 km · Edinburgh Park railway station, 3.3 km · Balgreen Halt railway station, 3 km · Edinburgh Gateway station, 2.5 km · Murrayfield Stadium tram stop, 3.5 km
  • Glasgow → Clermiston
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–9
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Clermiston
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £11–14
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Clermiston
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Clermiston

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 Clermiston. 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

    132 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    158 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    219 km

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

Around it

Next door to Clermiston

Clermiston is 6 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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