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The grounds of Spylaw House, now a park beside the Water of Leith.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>At the west side of Bonaly Road near its junction with West Carnethy Avenue. Torduff and Bonaly reservoirs are nearby but the purpose of this cast iron marker is unknown to me.
©michael ely
Dist:0.2km<br/>A self-explanatory sign set into a wall in Woodhall Road. The inscription reads, "5 miles from the G.P.O. Edinburgh. Erected to regulate the post horse duties payable by hackney coach 1824".
©Eileen Henderson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The view of Westgarth Avenue with a number 16 bus about to leave its terminus at Colinton .
©Sandy Gemmill
Dist:0.4km<br/>A new school is being built on Bonaly Road just to the north of the by-pass. Here workmen are applying the finishing touches.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a security feature of the new Bonaly Primary School. It is for the nursery school children.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>Lane leading into Bonaly past one of the buildings in the grounds of Laverockdale.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.4km<br/>Blaeberries (blueberries, bilberries, whortleberries, according to where you live) carpet the ground here now that sheep no longer graze in what has become a country park. View over the south-western suburbs of Edinburgh towards Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags, with the Firth of Forth beyond.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of an estate of family housing off Bonaly Road and on the edge of Bonaly Country Park.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen from the Water of Leith Walkway.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.4km<br/>Globespan Group plc, an Edinburgh-based tour operator offering no-frills flights, ceased trading and went into administration in December 2009.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looks like a block of flats but is, apparently, the HQ of the Globespan Group, part of which was FlyGlobespan, a Scottish low-fare airline that stopped trading just before Christmas 2009.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Spylaw House hides behind the beech hedge.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Tom Richardson

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