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Newington is a neighbourhood of southern
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. Developed from the early 19th century, it is an affluent, predominantly residential area. Located between 1 (1.5km) and 2.5 miles (4km) south of Edinburgh city centre, Newington is bounded to the east by St Leonard's and Prestonfield; to the south by
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and Nether Liberton; to the west by
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, the Grange, and
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; and to the north by the Southside, Edinburgh. Historically part of the parishes of St Cuthbert's and Liberton in the county of
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, Newington was incorporated into the city of Edinburgh between 1832 and 1896. Originally part of the ancient forest of Drumselch, the lands of Newington were feued by the
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from 1586. Aside from small developments, the area was predominantly rural until
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purchased the lands in 1805 and began to develop them as a suburb. Around this time, the construction of a new route from Edinburgh's
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to Liberton via Newington was accelerating the southward development of the city. From the 1850s, bus services connected Newington to the city centre while trams arrived in 1871. Newington station opened to passengers in 1884. By this time, the area was almost enitrely developed. In the latter half of the 19th century, institutions including the
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, the Royal Blind Asylum, and St Margaret's School set up in Newington. Newington station closed to passengers in 1962. Northern Newington consists of dense early Victorian tenements and Georgian terraces. South of Salisbury Road, these give way to sparser, late Georgian and early Victorian developments, some of which were founded as
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. Southern Newington includes Victorian villas and terraces as well as some former industrial buildings. With a population of around 11,000, Newington today remains an affluent, primarily residential suburb. The area is also one of the most diverse in Edinburgh. Newington houses Edinburgh's only synagogue as well as the headquarters of
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and the Causewayside site of the
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.


Toponymy

Newington is likely a variant of "Newton", meaning "new farm" in Scots. The name may have been invented by Alexander or Mariota Slowman or by their daughter, Margaret. Between them, the Slowmans acquired five of the six lots feued at Newington between 1602 and 1628. Alexander Ellis purchased these lots in 1649 and afterwards styled himself "Alexander Ellis of Newington".Harris 1996, p. 422. Alternatively, the name derives from "New town meadow" in reference to
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's role in the 16th-century feuing scheme. The "ing" here represents a meadow.Smith 1978, i p. 24.Gray in Gray 1961, p. 65. Late 18th and early 19th-century property records often refer to the area of Newington as "Belleville". The origin of this title is obscure but may be related to an alternative name for the mansion of Clockmiln (or Clockmill) near
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. The name has long since fallen out of use, being maintained only in the name of a mansion on Blacket Avenue.Gray 1942, p. 154.


History


Early years

Until the 16th century, the area now occupied by Newington lay within the ancient forest of Drumselch. The only interruptions to the forest were the nearby Grange of St Giles, developed from the 12th century, and the two southern highways via Liberton and
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respectively. What is now East and West Preston Street connected these two roads. This was known as "Mounthooly Loan" either in reference to a now-lost chapel at its eastern end in St Leonard's or, via
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, to a "ridged house of the dead": an ancient burial site somewhere in its vicinity.Gray in Gray 1961, p. 9.Harris 1996, p. 411. The area was otherwise unnamed save for Lowsie Law, which was likely located near modern South Oxford Street. A minor skirmish of the
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was fought here in 1571.Harris 1996, p. 379. In 1586, the
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feued six lots on an uncultivated area of the
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bounded by what are today East and West Preston street in the north, Dalkeith Road in the east, East and West Mayfield in the south, and Causewayside in the west. At the same time, the Dalkeith and Liberton roads were widened and the latter
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or "causeyed", giving it the name "Causewayside". The area remained open countryside until the end of the 18th century. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Mounthooly Loan was known as "Gibbet Loan" for the gallows which stood where Preston Street Primary School is now. Under these gallows,
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was buried until his reinternment at St Giles' in 1661. The modern bounds of Newington contained some smaller development prior to the end of the 18th century. The farmlands of Mayfield, earlier known as Newlands, centred on Mayfield House on Mayfield Loan.Smith 1978, i p. 27. This land had first been feued out of the Burgh Muir in 1530. Prior to 1800, there were also cottages at Echo Bank on Dalkeith Road and at the Powburn near Mayfield Road.Grant 1880, iii p. 50. There was also development along Causewayside, including a house whose two sections were known as Broadstairs House and Wormwoodhall. This stood on a site between Salisbury Place and Duncan Street until its demolition in 1880. James Grant attributes the house to a doctor of
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or V, in whose family, Grant claims, the house remained until the end of the 18th century, after which it became slums.Grant 1880, iii p. 51.Smith 1978, i p. 29. Summerhall was feued in 1705 and a brewery is recorded there as early as 1739.Harris 1996, p. 546.


18th and early 19th centuries

From the mid-18th century, developments such as
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and
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had brought wealthy Edinburgh citizens out of the
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and into the
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. Further development south, however, was stalled by the opening of the North Bridge in 1772, which aided the northward development of the city into the
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. From 1788, southward development resumed with the building of the South Bridge, which connected Nicolson Street to the Old Town. In 1794, an act of Parliament prepared for a great road south through Newington, continuing in the line of Nicolson Street. Minto Street had been planned as part of this by 1795; in 1812, the street was connected to the Liberton and
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roads.Thain 2020, p. 5. By the turn of the 19th century, many inhabitants of the New Town had developed houses in Newington either as country residences or as more secluded successors to their residences in the dense northern suburb.Smith 1978, i p. 25. In 1805, the entire Newington estate was bought by the surgeon
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, who was assisted in his business dealings by his fellow surgeon Alexander Wood. The same year, Bell built Newington House amid eight acres of land; the house was accessed from Blacket Avenue, which was named for Bell's familial estates in
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,
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.Smith 1978, i p. 26. After Bell's death in 1806, Sir George Stewart of
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bought the house and estate in 1808. Stewart constructed gates and lodges at either end of Blacket Avenue and Mayfield Terrace. The gates were closed at dusk every evening. The Kirkwood map of 1817 shows that, by this date, most present-day streets in this area had been laid out and named. By the end of the 1830s, the northern part of Blacket Place had been developed with detached and semi-detached properties while villas had been constructed in Upper Gray Street near terraces in Middleby Street and Duncan Street.Holmes 2001, p. 5. The development of Newington and the
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in this period occasioned the construction in 1823 of the
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as a
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of the West Kirk. In 1859, the chapel became a parish ''quoad sacra'' with the name Newington Parish Church. The congregation established a school on Dalkeith Road, opposite the end of Holyrood Park Road. Around the time of the chapel's establishment, the burial ground the
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had become overcrowded and the West Kirk parish established a new burial ground at East Preston Street in 1820.Gray in Gray 1961, p. 10.Pitcairn Anderson 1931, p. 680. On 12 February 1829, a week after the execution of William Hare, a mob from Edinburgh surrounded the house of
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on Newington Road. Burke and his accomplice William Hare had supplied corpses to Knox. The mob burned an effigy of the anatomist, who escaped in the guise of a Highlander.Smith 1978, i p. 30.


Victorian era

Development in Newington slowed between 1830 and 1850 but soon after resumed at pace. In this period, properties in the southern part of Blacket Place and the villas of Mayfield Terrace were developed.Holmes 2001, p. 8. By 1865, a report by
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found Newington to be the most densely populated of Edinburgh's southern suburbs.Smith 1978, i p. 28. In the expanding suburb, burials were accommodated by the establishment of
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, which opened for internments in 1846. After
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, Newington, which was laid out by
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from 1848, was the second of Edinburgh's privately managed suburban cemeteries.Grant 1880, iii p. 57.Holmes 2002, p. 9. Causewayside, in particular, had, from 1850, become overcrowded and unruly. Barriers were erected in Duncan Street and Salisbury Place to prevent the district's inhabitants from accessing the wealthier residences of Minto Street.Gray in Gray 1961, p. 79. Newington Parish Church supported a missionary in this area from 1866 and permanent mission buildings were established on Causewayside in 1886. In these, the Newington Social Union was established in 1892.Gray in Gray 1961, p. 82. Improved transport links to the city aided Newington's rapid development in this period. Buses reached the area in the 1850s and tramcars in 1871. Newington Railway Station on the
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opened in 1884. The
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saw the establishment of a
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congregation on Newington Road. A United Presbyterian congregation from Potterrow moved to a new church on the corner of Hope Park Terrace and Causewayside in 1867 while the
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established a church nearby at Hope Park Terrace in 1876. The Free Church went on to establish a congregation at Mayfield in 1875 while a Free congregation from Chambers Street moved to new buildings on Suffolk Road in 1898 under the name Craigmillar Park Free.Cant 1990, p. 126. The
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established a mission under the name of Mayfield on Craigmillar Park in 1879.Dunlop 1988, p. 271. St Peter's, an Epsicopal church, was built on Lutton Place between 1857 and 1865 while St Columba's Roman Catholic Church was established on Upper Gray Street in 1889.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, pp. 241-242.Dilworth 1989, p. 8. Nearby, on Duncan Street, a
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church had opened in 1841. In 1847, the church was purchased by the United Presbyterians, who moved out in 1863 to the newly-opened Grange Road United Presbyterian Church on the corner of Causewayside and Grange Road in
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. After this, the Duncan Street church was again occupied by a Baptist congregation.Dunlop 1988, p. 254. After Sir George Stewart's death in 1822, Newington House had passed through a number of owners until its occupation in 1852 by
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. At the western edge of Newington, McLaren acquired the lands of Mayfield and Rosebank along with the village of Powburn. From 1862, the area around Waverley Park was feued to a plan by
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.Holmes 2001, p. 4. In 1864, Cousin radically revised this scheme to create a plan of curving streets centring on a communally-owned green space at Waverley Park. This may have been inspired by a similar scheme at London's
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. Cousin also proposed that, like the Blacket development to its north, entry to this scheme would be guarded by gates and lodges.Holmes 2002, p. 5. Lodges remain at the Dalkeith Road entrance to Queen's Crescent and on Peel Terrace. After McLaren acquired the Mayfield estate in 1863, he again commissioned Cousin to produce a feu plan; however, only two terraces on the east side of Mayfield Gardens were laid out to Cousin's plan. Nevertheless, the area had been developed almost entirely by the time of McLaren's death in 1886. McLaren's personality and politics are reflected in the names of the streets he developed: Cobden Road, Peel Terrace, and Bright's Crescent are named for fellow reformist politicians; Queen's Terrace for his loyalty to
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; Waverely Park for his love of literature; and
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terraces for his favourite holiday resorts. Encouraged by the success of McLaren's Mayfield scheme, Sir Robert Gordon-Gilmour feued the area to its south as East and West Craigmillar Park, beginning in 1876.Harris 1996, p. 193. Development was, however, slower and the remaining unfeued land was turned into a nine-hole golf course in 1895.Thain 2020, p. 6. After one of its fairways was developed for housing in 1904, the club moved to
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and the remaining area became sport fields.Thain 2020, p. 8. In the same year, Craigmillar Park Bowling Club opened on vacant space in West Craigmillar Park.Thain 2020, p. 11. The creation of these sporting facilities supplemented the Waverely Lawn Tennis and Squash Club, which had been founded in 1885.Thain 2020, p. 24. The 19th century saw the establishment in Newington of several health and educational institutions. Completed in 1877 on the site of the old settlement at the Powburn, the West Craigmillar Asylum for Blind Females superseded the blind asylum on Nicolson Street. In 1875,
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on Salisbury Place opened as the Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables.Cant 1990, p. 180. Founded by a bequest of John Alexander Longmore, the hospital occupied the former site of several houses and a boys' school known as Wilson's Academy. Other schools of this period in Newington included Munro's Academy and Robertson's Academy, which occupied a Gothic building on the site of what is now South Oxford Street. St Margaret's School was founded in Craigmillar Park in 1890 as Queen Margaret's College for Young Ladies. Also in 1890, Madame Muriset's Craigmillar Park College was established on Crawfurd Road as a girls' boarding school. It closed at Muriset's retirement in 1932, by which time it was also accepting boys.Thain 2020, p. 10. By 1896, the need for a new public school in Newington and the
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was recognised by the foundation of Preston Street School on the corner of East Preston Street and Dalkeith Road. It opened in 1897 and remains in use as a primary school.Archibald 1988, pp. 5-6. St Columba's Roman Catholic Church had opened an attached school the previous year on Strathearn Road in
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. In 1897, this moved to Newington Road, moving again to the former Causewayside School building in 1924. It closed in 1941.


20th and 21st centuries

From 1907, Newington House was occupied by the cartographer
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. Bartholomew moved to the house from
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in Morningside, which was demolished shortly after the move. Bartholomew relocated his family's cartographic firm to Duncan Street, reincorporating the
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of Falcon Hall in the façade of the new works. In 1915, Bartholomew sold Newington House to the Scottish National Institution for the War Blinded. Another printing works was established at Bernard terrace by Pillans & Wilson, who moved production there from Thistle Street in the
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in 1919. In 1913, undeveloped land at East Craigmillar Park was purchased by the Edinburgh Association for the Provision of Hostels for Women Students. Residences were developed and first opened in 1915. During the
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, they served as a
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camp for German naval officers. They resumed use as student residences in 1945 and remained as such until developed as private housing in 2004.Thain 2020, p. 9. When the
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and United Presbyterian churches united in 1900, Newington's Free congregations of Newington, Craigmillar Park, and Mayfield had joined the new
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along with the United Presbyterian congregation of Hope Park. In 1929, these United Free congregations joined the
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at the union of the two denominations. The following decades saw further congregational unions. The Newington Social Union also ceased operations in 1931. At Salisbury Road, Edinburgh's only purpose-built synagogue opened in 1932. The synagogue was consecrated by Chief Rabbi,
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in front of a crowd of 1,400, which included Edinburgh's lord provost, councillors, and members of parliament. In 1940, the former Hope Park United Presbyterian Church united with the former Grange Road United Presbyterian Church to form Newington South and Hope Park Church. The Hope Park buildings were demolished in 1949.Cant 1990, p. 199. In 1966, the former Mayfield established church, by then known as Mayfield South, united with the former Craigmillar Park Free Church on East Suffolk Road. The East Suffolk Road buildings were sold to St Margaret's School and the united congregation adopted the name Craigmillar Park. Newington Parish Church, which had united with St Leonard's Parish Church in 1932, was dissolved in 1976. The former Newington Free Church, by then known as St Paul's Newington, united with
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in the
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in 1984. The St Paul's Newington buildings were acquired by Edinburgh City Fellowship, a
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church, the following year. In 1979, the Congregationalist church on Hope Park Terrace left its buildings to unite with Augustine-Bristo Congregational Church on
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in the
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. The late 20th and early 21st centuries saw other changes in Newington's institutions and amenities. Tram services through Newington were gradually cut between 1950 and 1956. Newington station closed to passengers on 10 September 1962. The Scottish War Blinded vacated Newington House, which was demolished in 1966 and the land sold to the
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. The Longmore Hospital closed in 1991 and was redeveloped as
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, headquarters of
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then, since 2015, of
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. Opposite this, the
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's Causewayside building was erected between 1984 and 1987 and extended between 1991 and 1994. It occupies the former site of the Middlemass biscuit factory, which the library had used as an annex since 1974. Pillans & Wilson vacated its Bernard Terrace premises in 1987. The site and an adjoining furniture depository were redeveloped as John Sinclair House, which opened as the headquarters of the
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in 1991. Batholomew's closed in 1987. The Geographical Institute was retained and converted to housing around the turn of the millennium. At the same time, the works to its rear were demolished and the land developed for flats. In education, St Margaret's School closed in 2010 after going into administration. Its East Suffolk Road buildings have been converted into a care home while the school's buildings at the former Craigmillar Park Free Church are now occupied by Iqra Academy: a mosque and Islamic education and community centre. The school's playing fields were developed for housing from 2015. The
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, which had stood on the former site of the Summerhall brewery since 1914, vacated its buildings in 2011. These were then developed as a creative centre.Cant 1990, p. 198. The
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vacated the former West Craigmillar Asylum in 2014. In 2019, the
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approved the redevelopment of its buildings as flats.


Geography

The area lies on a gentle, south-facing slope and is intersected from north to south by the A701 (South Clerk Street/Newington Road/Minto Street/Mayfield Gardens/Craigmillar Park). The ancient north–south route from Edinburgh to Liberton (Causewayside/Ratcliffe Terrace/Mayfield Road) forms Newington's western boundary with
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, the Grange, and
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while the parallel ancient route to
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(St Leonard's/Dalkeith Road) forms Newington's eastern boundary with St Leonard's and Prestonfield.Holmes 2001, p. 7. The A701 and Dalkeith Roads represent major routes into Edinburgh city centre, which is between 1 (1.5km) and 2.5 miles (4km) north of Newington.Holmes 2001, p. 11.Holmes 2002, p. 3.Thain 2020, p. 3. The
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borders Newington north of Hope Park Terrace/Bernard Terrace.
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and Nether Liberton border Newington south and west of the busy thoroughfares of Lady Road and Liberton Road. The former
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runs east to west through the southern part of Newington. Though closed to passengers in 1962, it remains in use for freight.Holmes 2002, pp. 9-10. The ''Buildings of Scotland'' guide to Edinburgh summarises Newington's development as "attracting villas and terraces and then subjecting them to the pressures of commerce and traffic".Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 634. Newington is a predominantly residential suburb.Holmes 2001, p. 22. South Clerk Street and Newington Road form the main shopping street with specialised shops on Causewayside.Thain 2019, p. 38. There is also a small row of shops on Salisbury Place and on Minto Street near the corner with West Mayfield. There are many guest houses on Minto Street.Holmes 2001, p. 13. Institutional buildings include the
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arts centre and
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's
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. The high ground of northern Newington affords views of
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to the east and of Liberton and the countryside of
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to the south.Holmes 2001, p. 8.Holmes 2002, p. 11. Despite mature tree growth throughout as well as a number of roadside "nature strips" and communal private gardens, the only public park is a small area around the
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at the southern tip of Newington.Thain 2020, p. 23. The green space of
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interrupts development of northern Newington while
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forms a prominent landscape feature at the south-eastern edge of the district.Thain 2019, p. 37.Holmes 2002, p. 18.


Townscape

The northern portion of Newington, between Bernard Terrace/Hope Park Terrace and Salisbury Place/Salisbury Road, is characterised by large, uninterrupted blocks. Buildings on South Clerk Street and Causewayside align to the heel of pavement while elsewhere blocks are mostly set back behind small front gardens. Buildings north of Salisbury Place/Salisbury Road range between two and a half and five storeys with an average height of four storeys. The rigorous imposition of Georgian and Victorian feuing plans means that, south of Salisbury Place/Salisbury Road, the density of buildings has remained low.Holmes 2001, p. 17. In this southern part of Newington, the area between the major north-south thoroughfares of Dalkeith Road and Minto Street is crossed by quieter residential streets. In the area between Salisbury Road, Minto Street, Dalkeith Road and West Mayfield,
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's feu scheme of 1825 has created regular plots for a mix of detached villas and larger terraces, which rise to one or two storeys. Many of the front and back gardens in this area display mature tree growth. Interruptions to this pattern include the 1930s additions of the synagogue and the five-storey nurses' housing block on Salisbury Road.Holmes 2001, p. 9. On the western side of Minto Street, opposite the Blacket development, the area around South Gray Street and Duncan Street is defined by a mix of residential and non-residential buildings: these include the telephone exchange and Duncan Street Baptist Church. This area also contains former industrial buildings which have been converted to residential use: the coach works and the Edinburgh Geographical Institute are examples. South of the Blacket development, large gardens with mature planting as well as a lack of through routes add to the secluded, green character of the Waverley Park development.Holmes 2002, p. 18. A similar combination of low-rise housing set back behind front gardens and mature tree growth characterises the southern portion of Newington.Thain 2020, p. 18. Local landmarks in the northern half of Newington include the prominent spire of St Peter's Episcopal Church on Lutton Place and, on the corner of Causewayside and Salisbury Place, the
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's Causewayside building.Thain 2019, p. 39. In the southern part of Newington, the substantial spire of Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church forms a local landmark on the corner of West Mayfield and Mayfield Terrace and Mayfield Road; as do the former Craigmillar Park Free Church at the eastern end of Suffolk Road and
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on Craigmillar Park.Thain 2020, pp. 13, 17.


Governance


Local

In local government, Newington is covered by the four-member Southside/Newington ward of the
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. The current councillors are Cameron Rose (
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); Alison Dickie ( SNP); Steve Burgess (
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); and Ian Perry (
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). At the last council elections in 2017, the results for the ward were: Along with
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, the Grange,
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, and Prestonfield, most of Newington is covered by the Grange/Prestonfield
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. The portion of Newington north of Salsibury Place and Salisbury Road is covered by the
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Community Council. Both community councils are currently active. Prior to the 19th century, the area currently covered by Newington was part of the county of
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and divided between the parishes of St Cuthbert's and Liberton. With a large expansion of the
burgh A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burg ...
's boundaries in 1832, the area of Newington north of the Pow Burn was annexed to Edinburgh while a further boundary extension in 1882 incorporated all the suburb north of what is now Esslemont Road. The southern tip of Newington was added to the city in 1896.


Parliamentary

In the
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, most of Newington lies within the
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constituency, which has been represented by Daniel Johnson (Labour) since
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. The portion of Newington north of Blacket Place and Duncan Street lies within the Edinburgh Central constituency, which has been represented by
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(SNP) since the 2021 election. Both constituencies are part of the
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electoral region. In the
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, the same portion of Newington that lies within the Edinburgh Southern constituency of the Scottish Parliament lies within the Edinburgh South constituency. Ian Murray (Labour) has represented this seat since
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. The remainder of Newington lies within the
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. This seat has been represented by
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(SNP) since
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. With the incorporation of most of Newington into Edinburgh, the area's representation in
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was as part of the
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constituency. Since the division of Edinburgh into constituencies in 1885, almost all of Newington has been part of Edinburgh South.


Conservation areas

The northern portion of Newington, between Bernard Terrace/Hope Park Terrace and Salisbury Place/Salisbury Road, lies within the southern portion of the South Side Conservation Area, designated in 1975.Thain 2019, p. 4. Immediately south of this, the area of Newington north of East and West Mayfield is covered the Blacket Conservation Area. Designated in 1972, this incorporates Salisbury Green in St Leonard's and the area around Marchhall Place at the northern tip of Prestonfield while excluding the west side of Causewayside/Ratcliffe Terrace south of the
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's Causewayside building.Holmes 2001, p. 3. The southern part of Newington is covered by the Craigmillar Park Conservation Area, which was designated in 1997. The area's boundary runs west along West Mayfield, south along Mayfield Road, north along the A701, east along Lady Road, west along the railway line, then north along the A701 to its starting point at West Mayfield.Thain 2020, p. 3. The remaining area west of Dalkeith Road lies within the Waverley Park Conservation Area, which was designated in 1977.


Demographics

The census data zones that mostly cover the area of Newington had a combined population of 11,130 in 2019 with 4,056 dwellings in 2020 at 51.66 dwellings per hectare. The area is relatively prosperous. As of 2020, all but one of the data zones are in the ninth and tenth deciles of the
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: the least-deprived deciles of the index. The only exception is Newington and Dalkeith Road – 05, which is in the eighth decile; this data zone covers Lutton Place, Oxford Street, and the northern end of Dalkeith Road. In 2018, the mean house price in Newington was £403,948 relative to £208,643 in Edinburgh as a whole and £181,457 across Scotland. In 2018, 490 children in Newington were in receipt of child benefit and the school attendance rate stood at 94.63 relative to 93.94 across Edinburgh. Newington is one of Edinburgh's most ethnically diverse areas.Frondigoun et al 2007, p. 13. In the Southside/Newington ward, the 2011 census found 9.9% of the population was of Asian descent relative to 5.5% in the rest of Edinburgh. The African/Caribbean category accounted for 0.9% of the ward's population; Other/Mixed for 2.5%; and White for 86.6%.


Architecture


Religious

Notable religious buildings in Newington include: * Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church, Mayfield Road: designed by
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in the
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style and constructed between 1876 and 1879. Its 48m (157ft) spire was added in 1894, at which time the
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was enlarged. The roof, including its
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, was destroyed by fire in 1969 and the ceiling was reconstructed by David Carr and Stewart Tod. The church includes a notable collection of late 19th and early 20th-century stained glass, including works by Oscar Paterson, Ballantine & Gardiner, and Guthrie & Wells.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 635. The church's spire is a prominent local landmark. J. Brian Crossland referred to the church as "a building of great originality and importance". * St Peter's Episcopal Church, Lutton Place: constructed between 1857 and 1867 to an early Geomteric Gothic design by London-based architect
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. The
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rises to 56m (184ft) and is a prominent landmark in northern Newington. The tower incorporates a 1935 statue of
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by Dorothy M. McKay. The interior includes arcades supported on
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columns, stained glass by
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, and encaustic tiles by
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in the chancel. The building is notable as an early example of the influence of the
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on Scottish Episcopalianism. J. Brian Crossland called it: "probably as nearly approaches the
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influence in creating a nineteenth-century
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church as reason and moderation would allow". *
Craigmillar Park Church Craigmillar Park Church serves Edinburgh's Newington area, in Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The church building dates from 1879 and the adjacent hall was added in 1899. Building Although the church is without towe ...
, Craigmillar Park: opened in 1878 as Mayfield Church, it was built to a
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design by Hardy & Wright. The interior was reorganised by
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in 1956 and includes stained glass by
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and Marjorie Kemp, added between 1927 and 1945. A steeple was planned but never built.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 634. * Iqra Academy, East Suffolk Road: built as Craigmillar Park Free Church to a cruciform
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design of
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& Wilson and opened in 1898. Like Craigmillar Park Church, it has an incomplete tower base: this was meant to support a turreted tower and octagonal spire. The former church hall is notable for its octagonal floor plan. After the building was purchased by St Margaret's School, the interior of the sanctuary was divided into two storeys by R.D. Cameron in 1976. Cameron retained the large
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ceiling. * St Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Upper Gray Street: completed in 1888 to a
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design by Rhoderic Cameron, which incorporates a
pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedimen ...
ed façade. The hall was added in 1927 to a design by
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.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 636. *
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, Salisbury Road: opened in 1932 and built in red brick to a simplified
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design of James Miller. The interior, which was divided into two storeys by Dick Peddie & McKay in 1979, includes stained glass of 1957 by William Wilson. * King's Hall, South Clerk Street: opened as Newington Free Church in 1843 to a design of
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and recast in 1847. In 1907, Henry & Maclennan added a
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to the interior and added a Gothic frontage in the 16th-century Scottish Gothic style.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 241. * The former Hope Park & Buccleuch Congregational Church, Hope Park Terrace: completed in 1876 to a Lombard design by Sutherland & Walker, incorporating a short tower.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 240. * Duncan Street Baptist Church, Duncan Street: completed around 1843, it has a heavy, attenuated classical façade of three
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. The interior was recast in 1888, including the removal of the gallery on two sides.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 635. * Hope Park United Presbyterian Church (demolished), Causewayside: designed by Peddie & McKay and opened in 1867, the building's Romanesque design incorporated a rood of pitched bays with wheel windows in the upper storey as well as a tall tower with a short spire. The building was vacated by its congregation in 1940 and demolished in 1949.


Public and commercial

Notable public and commercial buildings in Newington include: *
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, Causewayside: designed by David McArthy and opened as the
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in 1916. The ''Buildings of Scotland'' guide to Edinburgh describes the style as "Fag-end
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". The frontage consists of eleven
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with
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at either end and a taller central pavilion. The site also includes a seven-storey
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block by
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, Eric Hall & Partners.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 243. *
Longmore House Longmore House, formerly Longmore Hospital, on Salisbury Place, Newington, Edinburgh, is the headquarters of Historic Environment Scotland. The property is designated a Category B listed building. History The hospital has its origins in a facil ...
, Salisbury Place: opened in 1879 as the Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables to a neoclassical design of
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and extended to the rear in 1891. The façade focuses on a three-storey
pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedimen ...
ed centrepiece.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 636. * The former Royal Blind Asylum: constructed in 1874 to a
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design by Charles Leadbetter, which incorporates a
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and a central clock tower. Royal Blind vacated the building in 2014 and, as of 2021, it is being redeveloped as the centrepiece of a housing development by
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. * National Library of Scotland Annexe, Causewayside: built between 1984 and 1987 to a design of Andrew Merrylees & Associates and extended between 1991 and 1994. It is faced in sandstone from Newbigging with jagged glass pinnacles, which make it a prominent landmark in its vicinity. * Southside Garage: an International style garage of 1933-1934, notable as an early work of
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and as one of Edinburgh's first modernist buildings. Faced in white concrete, the façade consists of a glazed upper storey cantilevered over a forecourt on two
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s. The building is currently in use as an off-licence. * The former Geographical Institute, Duncan Street: a two-storey classical office building with a fourteen-bay façade, built to a design by Harry Ramsay Taylor and opened in 1910. The portico was designed around 100 years prior by Thomas Hamilton for
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in Morningside and incorporated in the Geographical Institute after Falcon Hall was demolished. Bartholomew's vacated the building in 1987 and it was converted flats around the turn of the millennium. * The former Craigmillar Park Golf Club Clubhouse, Pavilion Crescent: by
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in the
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style. Dating to 1895, it is a rare example of a small-scale late 19th-century golf clubhouse.Thain 2020, p. 20. * Preston Street Primary School, East Preston Street: a red
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building of 1897 with white dressings and a prominent wood and copper ventilator on the roof. The design, which is credited to Robert Wilson but was mostly executed by J.A. Carfrae, incorporates two gabled ends and is inspired by Jacobean and Scandinavian architecture.


Domestic

Almost all buildings in Newington date from the early 19th century onwards. There are significant 18th-century vernacular houses at 21–25 Causewayside and one Ratcliffe Terrace. The former dates to the late 18th century and displays two wall-head chimneys.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 640. Also on Causewayside was Broadstairs House and Wormwoodhall, which may have dated to the 16th century and which was demolished in 1880. Its front consisted of a central gable with a door accessed by a forestair and flanked by other gables.Grant 1880, iii p. 51.Smith 1978, i p. 29. In northern Newington, two and three-storey houses were developed along South Clerk Street and Newington Road from 1805. In many cases, single-storey shops were constructed on the front gardens of these properties. Notable among houses in this area is West Newington House at 10 Newington Road. Dating to around 1805, its façade sports large
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s.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 641. Early Victorian tenements, as at Lutton Place and Oxford Street, adopt a classical idiom similar to that of the preceding late Georgian era. Later Victorian tenements, such as those of 1887–1888 along Dalkeith Road, display features such as spired towers and mansard roofs.Holmes 2002, p. 7. South of Preston Street and west of Minto Street, Georgian and Victorian houses stand in larger plots amid now mature tree growth. The first of these was Newington House: an imposing neoclassical mansion, which may have been designed by its first owner,
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. 23–25 Blacket Place, by James Gowans and Arthur Lodge on Dalkeith Road, a low
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villa by Thomas Hamilton, completed in 1830. Three sets of Tudor Gothic gates and lodges on Dalkeith Road and two on Minto Street were constructed around 1825 to restrict access to the Blacket development. Though the Minto Street lodges were demolished in 1925, all three on Dalkeith Road remain, testament to the exclusive character of the original development. South of this area, Victorian villas and terraces tend towards slightly denser development:
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's terrace of 1862 at East Mayfield and Peel Terrace is an example.Holmes 2002, p. 19. Other notable terraces in southern Newington include the eclectically-detailed range at 2–28 Moston Terrace. One prominent institutional residential development is the monumental five-storey former Longmore Hospital Nurse Home on Salisbury Road. Constructed to a design of J. Douglas Miller between 1938 and 1947, it dominates its surrounding buildings.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 642. Another is the former women's halls of residence on East Suffolk Road. Begun in 1914, it centres on a green. The blocks, which incorporate
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s and
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s, were designed in the Arts & Crafts style by A.K. Robertson, drawing inspiration from
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.Gifford, McWilliam, Walker 1984, p. 638. Later developments include a 1930s tenement block on the corner of Bernard Terrace and Dalkeith Road, which is the work of City Architect,
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. Modern infill developments stand on sites including Causewayside, East Newington Place, and Peel Terrace.Holmes 2002, p. 17. Many detached and semi-detached properties were augmented by ground floor extensions from the later 20th century onwards.Holmes 2002, p. 24.


Amenities


Transport


Buses

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serves the route of the A701 through Newington is with the 3 ( ClovenstoneMayfield/
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), 7 ( Newhaven
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), 8 (
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–Royal Infirmary), 29 (
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), 31 (
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/ Polton Mill), 37 (Silverknowes– Penicuik Deanburn/ Easter Bush), 47 ( Granton–Penicuik Ladywood), 49 ( Rosewell
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). The route along East Preston Street and Dalkeith Road is served by the 2 (
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–The Jewel), the 30 (Clovenstone–
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), and the 33 (
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Millerhill). The 2 and the 30 turn off Dalkeith Road at Prestonfield Avenue. The 14 (Muirhouse–
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) also follows Dalkeith Road, turning at Prestonfield Avenue. The 5 (
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–The Jewel) goes via Salisbury Place and Newington Road. The 42 (
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–King's Road,
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) serves Causewayside and Lady Road. Lady Road is also served by the 24 and the 38 (West Granton–Royal Infirmary).
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also operates the X62 (Edinburgh–
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) via the A701 through Newington as well as the X95 (Edinburgh–
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) via Dalkeith Road.


Rail

Now used by freight trains, the former
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travels east-west through the southern part of Newington. Newington railway station on Craigmillar Park served passengers between 1884 and 1962. Proposals to reopen the line were subject of a feasibility study by the
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in 2004; the council, however, rejected the plan in a further feasibility report of 2008. In November 2020,
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, Michael Matheson claimed the reopening of the line to passenger was one of a number of plans being considered by the Scottish Government as part of its second ''Strategic Transport Projects Review''.


Proposed tram extension

As part of the initial plans for
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, the
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proposed a route to connect
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with
Newcraighall Newcraighall ( sco, Newcraighauch, gd, Talla na Creige Nuadh) is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and c ...
via Newington. In February 2005, a proposal to impose road tolls was defeated in a local referendum, removing a potential source of funds for the scheme. With the Scottish Executive's refusal of further support the following month, the plan was indefinitely shelved. The plan was, however, included among a "wish list" of further routes offered by Alastair Richard, Edinburgh Trams' managing director, in 2010. The plans were revived in the city council's 2019 ''Edinburgh City Centre Transformation Strategy''. In 2021, the
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's ''City Mobility Plan'' included plans for an extension of the Edinburgh Trams network along the A701 through Newington to the
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.


Religion

There are two congregations of the
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based in Newington. On the corner of Mayfield Road and West Mayfield stands Mayfield Salisbury Parish Church. The church was first established as a mission of the
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in 1875. A Chinese
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congregation also meets for worship in the building.
Craigmillar Park Church Craigmillar Park Church serves Edinburgh's Newington area, in Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The church building dates from 1879 and the adjacent hall was added in 1899. Building Although the church is without towe ...
on Craigmillar Park was established as a mission in 1879. Since 2019, it has shared a minister with
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in
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. St Peter's, a congregation of the
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, is located on Lutton Place while a Roman Catholic church, St Columba's, is located on Upper Gray Street. The churches opened in 1865 and 1889 respectively. Nearby St Columba's, stands Duncan Street Baptist Church, an independent,
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congregation, which moved to its current building in 1863. Since 1985, the former Newington Free Church buildings on South Clerk Street have been used by Edinburgh Community Church, a
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church, under the name King's Hall. There are two non-Christian houses of worship in Newington. One is a
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,
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, located on Salisbury Road, it opened in 1932 to house a congregation which can trace its roots back to the establishment of Edinburgh's first
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congregation in 1817. It is Edinburgh's only synagogue and stands in the
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tradition. Though not part of the
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, it is under the aegis of the
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. The other is Iqra Academy, which serves as a mosque as well as an
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educational and cultural centre. It occupies the former Craigmillar Park Free Church buildings on East Suffolk Road, which were vacated by St Margaret's School at its closure in 2010.


Cemeteries

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is located near the southern end of Dalkeith Road. It was opened by the Metropolitan Burial Association in 1846.Maclean in Boyle et al. 1985, p. 98. Further north, at the corner of Dalkeith Road and East Preston Street, is
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, founded as a burial site within the parish of St Cuthbert's in 1820. Both are closed to new graves and are maintained by the
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.


Education

The only school in Newington is Preston Street Primary School on the corner of East Preston Street and Dalkeith Road, which opened in 1897. Most of Newington is divided between the non-denominational primary school catchment areas of Preston Street Primary School and
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Primary School. The southern point of Newington below Esslemont Road lies within the catchment of Liberton Primary School while the area around the former student residences on East Suffolk Park is covered by the catchment area of Prestonfield Primary School. Preston Street and Sciennes primary schools feed into
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in
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while Liberton Primary School feeds into
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and the Prestonfield Primary School catchment is divided between Liberton and Castlebrae high schools. In denominational state schools, Newington is entirely covered by the catchment area of St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School in Morningside, which feeds into
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in
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. The
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's main site in the
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and
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; its main accommodation of the
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in St Leonard's; and its sciences site at the
King's Buildings The King's Buildings (colloquially known as just King's or KB) is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Located in the suburb of Blackford, the site contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, exc ...
in
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are all located near Newington. Nevertheless, the only sites of the university in Newington itself are accommodation blocks on South Clerk Street, East Newington Place, Blackwood Crescent, Ratcliffe Terrace, Craigmillar Park, and Gordon Terrace.


Culture and leisure

The former buildings of the
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on Causewayside have been used since 2011 as
Summerhall Summerhall is an arts complex and events venue in Edinburgh, Scotland. Formerly home to the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies of the University of Edinburgh, it is now a major Edinburgh Festival Fringe visual and performing arts venue. ...
: an arts and events venue. Newington Library is located nearby on Fountainhall Road in the Grange. Opened in 1975, the library is operated as a public lending library by the
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. The
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's maps reading room is located in its Causewayside building. Craigmillar Park Bowling Club is located on Gilmour Road in West Craigmillar Park. There are tennis, squash, and gym facilities at the Waverley Lawn Tennis, Squash and Sports Club on Suffolk Road.


Notable residents

The first prominent inhabitant of Newington was the surgeon
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, who constructed Newington House. Bell's successors at Newington House included the
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politician
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and the house's last private owner, the cartographer
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. Other prominent early inhabitants of Newington included
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, founder of his namesake publishing house, and
Robert Knox Robert Knox (4 September 1791 – 20 December 1862) was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually partnered with anatomist and former teache ...
, the anatomist infamous for his involvement in the
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. In the early Victorian period, Newington's inhabitants included prominent leaders of the
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, William Cunningham and
Thomas Guthrie Thomas Guthrie FRSE (12 July 1803 – 24 February 1873) was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire). He was one of the most popular preachers of his day in Scotland, and was associa ...
. Other prominent ministers then resident in Newington included
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and Thomas M'Crie, leading figures in the
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.
David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of pho ...
, the artist and pioneering photographer famed for depicting the Disruption's leaders, died at his house in Newington in 1870. In 1878, French teacher
Eugene Chantrelle Eugene Marie Chantrelle (1834 in Nantes – 31 May 1878 in Edinburgh) was a French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and who was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Dyer. He is claimed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson, Robe ...
murdered his wife Elizabeth Cullen Dwyer at their house on Newington Road. In the 20th century, inhabitants included the entertainer Will Fyffe, athlete and missionary
Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell (; 16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and Christian missionary. Born in Qing China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended boarding school near London, spending time when p ...
, geneticist
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, choreographer
Lindsay Kemp Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938British Film Institute entry for Lindsa ...
, Corries folk singer
Ronnie Browne Ronald Grant Browne ("The Voice") (20 August 1937 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish folk musician and songwriter, who is a founding member of The Corries. Biography Browne was born in Edinburgh to John Albert ' ...
and author
Ian Rankin Sir Ian James Rankin (born 28 April 1960) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Early life Rankin was born in Cardenden, Fife. His father, James, owned a grocery shop, and his mother, Isobel, worked in a schoo ...
.Thain 2020, p. 12.


References


Notes


Citations


Bibliography

* * ** Maclean, Colin C. "Nineteenth Century Cemeteries in Edinburgh". * * * * * * * ** Gray, John G. *** "Newington House" *** "Dr. Knox Escapes a Newington Mob" *** "Causewayside" ** Gray, William Forbes *** "Preston Street" *** "D.O. Hill" * * * Holmes, Andrew M. ** ** * * * * * * Thain, Michael ** **


External links


The Blacket Association

Craigmillar Park Association

Grange/Prestonfield Community Council
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