Lochrin

Lochrin est un quartier d'Édimbourg en Écosse.

1. Géographie

Il se situe au sud-ouest du centre-ville, à l'ouest de Tollcross et au sud de Fountainbridge. Lochrin abrite un large éventail de commerces de détail, d'installations de loisirs, d'autres entreprises et de logements. D'importants nouveaux projets de bureaux et de logements ont remplacé certains des bâtiments les plus anciens.

1. Histoire

Lorsque les bassins à l'extrémité est du canal de l'Union sont comblés et que le canal est tronqué en 1921, le bassin de Lochrin devient le terminus est. À cette époque, le pont levant de Leamington est déplacé de l'endroit où Fountainbridge traverse le canal à son emplacement actuel, juste à l'ouest du bassin. Le bassin de Lochrin est la pièce maîtresse d'Edinburgh Quay, un développement à usage mixte offrant des bureaux et des logements ainsi que des locaux sous licence, qui a été élu meilleur projet de régénération en Écosse aux Scottish Design Awards 2005. C'est également l'extrémité est du Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway (en).

1. Notes et références


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Union Canal (Scotland)

The Union Canal, full name the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, is a canal in Scotland, running from Falkirk to Edinburgh, constructed to bring minerals, especially coal, to the capital. It was opened in 1822 and was initially successful, but the construction of railways, particularly the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842, diminished its value as a transport medium. It fell into slow commercial decline and was closed to commercial traffic in 1933. It was officially closed in 1965. The canal is listed as three individual scheduled monuments by Historic Scotland according to the three former counties, Midlothian, West Lothian and Stirlingshire, through which it flows. It has benefited from a general revival of interest in canals and, as a result of the Millennium Link, was reopened in 2001 and reconnected to the Forth and Clyde Canal in 2002 by the Falkirk Wheel. It is now in popular use for leisure purposes.

Kayaking Landmark

Lochrin is a small area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is in the south-west corner of the city centre, to the west of Tollcross, and south of Fountainbridge. Lochrin contains a wide mixture of retail shops, leisure facilities, other businesses and tenement housing. Major new office and residential developments have replaced some of the older buildings. When the basins at the eastern end of the Union Canal were filled in and the canal truncated in 1921, Lochrin Basin became the eastern terminus. At that time, the Leamington Lift Bridge was moved from where Fountainbridge crossed the canal to its current location just to the west of the basin. Lochrin Basin is the centrepiece of Edinburgh Quay, a mixed-use development providing office and residential accommodation and licensed premises, which was voted the Best Regeneration project in Scotland at the Scottish Design Awards 2005. It is also the eastern end of the Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway.

Marina Neighbourhood

Fountainbridge

Fountainbridge is a former industrial district in Edinburgh, Scotland, a short distance west of the Old Town. It is built around the street of the same name, which begins at the West Port and continues (as Dundee Street) towards Gorgie and Dalry. The district is bounded on the south by the final stretch of the Union Canal and on the north by the West Approach Road, built on the route of the old Caledonian Railway.

Industrial Neighbourhood

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Tollcross Primary School

Tollcross Primary School (Scottish Gaelic: Bunsgoil Crois na Cìse) is a mixed non-denominational primary school on Fountainbridge near Tollcross in Edinburgh.

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Gilmore Place drill hall

The Gilmore Place drill hall was a military installation in Edinburgh.

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