Turnhouse

Worth seeing in and around Turnhouse

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
   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.

   3.8 km · hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   3.8 km · Roman statue discovered in 1996/1997 at Cramond Ferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.8 km · Roman fort in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cramond Tower

   Cramond Tower is a fifteenth-century tower house in the village of Cramond to the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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

   3.7 km · church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Carlowrie

   Carlowrie Castle was built in the Scottish Baronial style between 1852 and 1855 on the outskirts of Kirkliston, a town approximately 10 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland. It has only ever belonged to two families: the Hutchison family, who built it, and the Marshall family, who acquired it 130 years later.

   2.7 km · building in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Cat Stane

   The Cat Stane, or Catstane, is an inscribed standing stone near Kirkliston, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, in Scotland. It bears a fragmentary inscription dating to the fifth or sixth centuries and was part of a funerary complex consisting of the stone itself, a cairn and a series of cist burials.

   2 km · archaeological site in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Corstorphine Collegiate Church

   Corstorphine Old Parish Church, formerly St. John's Collegiate Church, is at the old centre of Corstorphine, a village incorporated to the west area of Edinburgh.

   3.3 km · church in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   2 km · bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland · Wikipedia
10. 10
    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.

    1.8 km · country house in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Turnhouse

Airports

Edinburgh (EDI), 2 km · Glasgow (GLA), 69 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 92 km

Stations

Edinburgh Airport, 2.4 km · South Gyle railway station, 2.6 km · Edinburgh Park railway station, 3 km · Edinburgh Gateway station, 1.3 km · Edinburgh Airport tram stop, 1.7 km

• Glasgow → Turnhouse

  57 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Turnhouse

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Turnhouse

  53 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
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