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Dalmahoy

Dalmahoy is a hotel and former country house near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dalmahoy
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The place

Dalmahoy is a hotel and former country house near Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located off the A71 road, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) south of Ratho. The house is protected as a category A listed building,

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dalmahoy

7 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
    Heriot-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.

    3.1 km · university in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jupiter Artland

    Jupiter Artland is a contemporary sculpture park and art gallery outside the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jupiter Artland Foundation is a registered charity that is supported by classes, workshops, events, ticket sales, and donations.

    3.3 km · sculpture garden and art gallery in the west of City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hatton House

    Haltoun House, usually known as Hatton House,, was a Scottish baronial mansion set in a park, with extensive estates in the vicinity of Ratho, in the west of Edinburgh City Council area, Scotland. It was formerly in Midlothian, and it was extensively photographed by Country Life in September 1911.

    1.7 km · house in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Malleny Garden

    The Malleny House and Garden is an historic house and garden owned by the National Trust for Scotland in Balerno, 6 mi southwest of Edinburgh. The gardens are notable for its large yew trees, as well as one of the largest rose collections in Scotland.

    2.9 km · walled garden and woodland estate landscape in Balerno, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lennox 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.

    3.3 km · tower house in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Riccarton

    Riccarton is an area in Edinburgh's Green Belt, in Scotland. It is mainly undeveloped, with much farmland and few houses.

    3 km · locality to the south-west of Edinburgh, the site of Heriot-Watt University's main campus · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bonnington Aqueduct

    The Bonnington Aqueduct is an aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

    3.6 km · aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of 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 Dalmahoy

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 5 km · Glasgow (GLA), 66 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 88 km
Stations
Curriehill railway station, 3.2 km · Balerno railway station, 2.6 km
  • Glasgow → Dalmahoy
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–8
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dalmahoy
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Dalmahoy
    8 km · quickest by road, 24 min · £1
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dalmahoy

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 Dalmahoy. 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

    116 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    127 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    153 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

    218 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dalmahoy

Dalmahoy is 12 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rathovillage in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Kirknewtonvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Balernovillage in City of Edinburgh Council, Scotland, UK2.9 km
  • Currievillage in Edinburgh, Scotland4 km
  • Ratho Stationvillage in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Curriehillsuburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.2 km