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The old map shows a drive to a big country house here. This is part of the big post war housing scheme of Oxgangs in South Edinburgh.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.1km<br/>A 'cockit' hat is Scots for a cocked hat, which has opposing rims turned up and caught together to give two or three points. This is the latter - a tricorn - and refers to the shape of a small triangular woodland planted at the junction of Redford Road and Oxgangs Road North.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Between Oxgangs and Swanston, Edinburgh.
©james denham
Dist:0.2km<br/>This has been an important meeting of routes into Edinburgh from the Pentland Hills since ancient times. Today it is lost within the city's suburbs. The locals pronounce Tryst to rhyme with iced, not missed.
©michael ely
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking south, from the junction with Redford Road, towards Hunters Tryst.
©M J Richardson
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©Darrin Antrobus
Dist:0.3km<br/>On the east side of Oxgangs Road opposite the Hunter's Tryst pub. It reads: 5 MILES From the General Post Office EDINBURGH. Erected to regulate the Post Horse charges Payable by Hackney Coach 1824.
©michael ely
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>This was once a popular rat run for drivers coming from or going to the city bypass at Dreghorn. Now the road is blocked at the junction with Redford Road.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.5km<br/>Part of a large housing scheme, dating from the 1960s(?), in the area of the old Oxgangs Farm. The 'Streets of Edinburgh' says an oxgang is an old Scottish measure of about 5 ha, which is the amount that can be ploughed by an ox-drawn plough in a year, which does not seem much. Another source says 'from old English law, an uncertain quantity of land, but, according to some opinions, it contains fifteen acres [6 ha]'.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>In south Edinburgh.
©james denham
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the corner of Oxgangs Road North and Oxgangs Avenue.
©michael ely
Dist:0.5km<br/>Road joining the A720 City Car Park, sorry City Bypass. The Shell garage can be seen to the left of the roundabout. View from Allermuir Hill.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>This part of the A720 opened around 1982. Since then houses have been built on the inside, between the old ring road and the new road.
©Richard Webb
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©Bill Harrison

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