Redmount, 6 Wester Coates Road, Edinburgh

Roseburn Free Church, Wester Coates, Edinburgh

West Coates or Wester Coates is a residential district of central

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, the capital of

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. It is on the A8, in proximity to Haymarket railway station and

Roseburn Roseburn is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The area lies in the west of the city, approximately a 20-minute walk from the city centre, west of Haymarket and close to the Murrayfield area (and Murrayfield Stadium). It is imm ...

, west of the city centre, bounded by the

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on its north side. As well as numerous small hotels and

bed and breakfast Bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast. Bed and breakfasts are often private family homes and typically have between four and eleven rooms, wit ...

lodges, the area was home to

Donaldson's College Donaldson's School, in Linlithgow is Scotland's national residential and day school, providing education, therapy and care for pupils who are deaf or who have communication difficulties. History The School's foundation, 1851 Donaldson's School ...

, a former school for the deaf. The name derives from Coates Hall on Rosebery Crescent to the east. The focal point in urban design terms is Roseburn Free Church on Hampton Terrace by Robert Reid Raeburn (1867) but this its impact is only appreciated from Wester Coates Road as (on the main road) it is visually overwhelmed by Donaldson's School. The character is very different north and south of the main road. To the north the area is laid out as large villas on spacious avenues. South of the main road (and the modest houses of Osborne Terrace and Hampton Terrace, lies Devon Place, single storey cottages dating from 1864 and built by the coal merchant James McKelvie, originally connected to the rail marshalling yards to the south. In the main road the Jacobean style villas at 1 to 6 West Coates are by

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. No 7 is by John Chesser. In the luxurious hinterland 1 Wester Coates Gardens is by Thomas Duncan Rhind.Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker

Notable residents

*Trix Kipling, aka Alice Kipling Fleming, writer and the sister of

Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...

. *

George F. Merson George Fowlie Merson FRSE FPS FCS (1866–1959) was a Scottish pharmacist who produced an artificial surgical catgut called Mersuture. In authorship he appears as G. F. Merson. Life He was born in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire in 1866. He trained ...

FRSE lived at 9 Hampton Terrace * Andrew Edward Scougal FRSE lived at 1 Wester Coates Avenue * Prof James Walker FRSE lived at 5 Wester Coates Road

References

* Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). ''Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh.'' Edinburgh: Leamington Books. .
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