Royal Park Terrace and Meadowbank Crescent - geograph

Meadowbank is a

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. It is best known for

Meadowbank Stadium Meadowbank Stadium (officially the Meadowbank Sports Centre) is a multi-purpose sports facility located in the Meadowbank, Edinburgh, Meadowbank area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of the earlier New Meadowbank and Old Meadowbank spo ...

, a multi-purpose sports facility that opened as an international sports stadium in 1970. The stadium closed in 2017 and was redeveloped as a local sports and athletics facility that was officially opened on 4 November 2022.

History

The area developed extensively during the

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as Edinburgh expanded eastwards.

Holyrood Park Holyrood Park (also called the King's Park or Queen's Park depending on the reigning monarch's gender) is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It is open to the public. It has an array of hills, lo ...

lies to the south of Meadowbank. Meadowbank lodge is a Category C listed lodge, built in 1858, that borders the park and Meadowbank. Meadowbank Parish Church is named for the Meadowbank area although is located in Abbeyhill. The church was originally called Hollyrood Abbey Church. It is Category B listed and was built in 1899. Meadowbank retail park lies on the western edge of Meadowbank. The retail park was built in the early 1990s and occupies the former site of a

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on London Road and a former seven storey

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Geography

Meadowbank lies to the east of central Edinburgh, bordering Abbeyhill on its western side. To the north of Meadowbank is Lochend and

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. To the east of Meadowbank are the areas of Parsons Green, Jock's Lodge and

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Transport

The A1 road and

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railway to

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run through this way. There were two former train stations in Meadowbank, but these no longer exist. Meadowbank Stadium railway station served the adjacent stadium from 1986 beginning with the 1986 Commonwealth Games. It remained in use until 1998.

Queen's Station

The Queen's Station was a private railway station used by

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to enable her to reach

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, without the need to travel through the

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. The station was established in 1850 by the

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and ceased used sometime after 1881. On 29 August 1851, Queen Victoria arrived at the station and was met by a large military escort and crowds.

Notable residents

Duncan Shaw, a former

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grew up in a tenement flat in Meadowbank.

References

External links

Meadowbank Sports Centre
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