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Cramond

Cramond Village is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.

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The place

Cramond Village is a village and suburb in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cramond

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
    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.

    1.7 km · 16th-century tower house in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barnbougle Castle

    Barnbougle Castle is a historic tower house on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, between Cramond and Queensferry, and within the parish of Dalmeny. It lies within the Earl of Rosebery's estate, just north-west of Dalmeny House.

    2.5 km · castle in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    100 m · Roman statue discovered in 1996/1997 at Cramond Ferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dalmeny House

    Dalmeny House is a Gothic revival mansion located in an estate close to Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth, in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was designed by William Wilkins, and completed in 1817.

    2.3 km · house in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.6 km · hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.5 km · castle in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    400 m · Roman fort in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cramond Kirk

    Cramond Kirk is a church situated in the middle area Cramond parish, in the north west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of an old Roman fort, parts of the Cramond Kirk building date back to the fourteenth century and the church tower is considered to be the oldest part.

    200 m · church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Craigiehall

    Craigiehall is a late-17th-century country house, which until 2015 served as the Headquarters of the British Army in Scotland. It is located close to Cramond, around 9 km west of central Edinburgh, Scotland.

    2.6 km · country house in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cramond Old Bridge

    The Cramond Old Bridge is a bridge in Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland that crosses the River Almond. The bridge carries the National Cycle Route 1, National Cycle Route 76 and the John Muir Way.

    1.9 km · bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland · 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 Cramond

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 6 km · Glasgow (GLA), 72 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 96 km
Stations
Davidson's Mains railway station, 2.1 km · Barnton railway station, 2 km · Granton Gasworks railway station, 3.7 km
  • Glasgow → Cramond
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cramond
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Cramond
    22 km · quickest by road, 38 min · £2.5–3.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cramond

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: South Queensferry, 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

    157 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    217 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cramond

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

  • Blackhallsuburb in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Barntonsuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1.9 km
  • Drumbraesuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.9 km
  • Davidson's Mainsoutlying area of Edinburgh2.3 km
  • Drylawhuman settlement in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Clermistonsuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.8 km