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The Goldenacre Sports Ground is located in the Goldenacre area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is owned by the George Heriot's School. Several sports are played here including cricket, association football, tennis, and rugby. It is also the home ground of Heriot's Rugby Club and Heriot's Cricket Club. The cricket pitch hosted seven matches (two of which are warm ups) for the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. In the film Chariots of Fire, the Scotland v France International Athletics competition scene was shot at Goldenacre.
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Goldenacre
Goldenacre is an area in Edinburgh, Scotland, centred on the northern end of Inverleith Row. It lies on and to the south of Ferry Road, which forms the effective boundary with Trinity. It is part of the Inverleith Conservation area and the Stockbridge and Inverleith Community Council area.
The name Goldenacre originally applied only to the land to the east of Inverleith Row, belonging to the Dukes of Buccleuch and developed in the late 19th century, with street-names taken from Buccleuch titles and properties.
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Warriston
Warriston () is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It lies east of the Royal Botanic Garden in Inverleith. The name derives from Warriston House, a local mansion house demolished in 1966.
In July 1600 John Kincaid, the Laird of Warriston, was murdered by his wife, Jean Livingstone, a daughter of the Laird of Dunipace, her two female servants, and his stable hand. The women were captured and sentenced to be burnt.
Warriston Cemetery was opened in 1843 and is now owned by the City of Edinburgh. Warriston Crematorium was opened on 29 October 1929 on the eastern edge of the old cemetery. It was built in 1808 as East Warriston House and converted in 1928/9.
There is a small housing estate near Warriston Cemetery locally known as Easter Warriston.
A large playing field belonging to George Heriot's School extends into the Goldenacre area. It was used in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire for the scene where, for the first time, Harold Abrahams watches Eric Liddell run.
The Water of Leith flows by here. Kirkwood's 1817 Plan of Edinburgh and its Environs shows its north and south banks connected by a line of stepping stones at a ford at the end of present-day Logie Green Road.
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St James, Goldenacre
St James, Goldenacre is a Scottish Episcopal church in the Goldenacre area of Edinburgh. It was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and opened in 1888. It is a Category B listed building and is noted for its interior decoration, including work by distinguished artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)
Edinburgh North and Leith is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster), first used in the 1997 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election and has been represented since 2024 by Tracy Gilbert of Scottish Labour.
In 1999, a Scottish Parliament constituency was created with the same name and boundaries. See Edinburgh North and Leith (Scottish Parliament constituency). The boundaries of the Westminster constituency were altered, however, in 2005, and the Scottish Parliament constituency retained the older boundaries until 2011. Since then, the seat has mainly been split between the Edinburgh Northern and Leith and Edinburgh Central constituencies at Holyrood, with a small area also located in Edinburgh Western.
At the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the constituency returned an above average No vote; 60% voted for Scotland to stay in the United Kingdom, while 40% voted Yes to independence.
At the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the European Union, the constituency voted to Remain by 78.2%. This constituency was the seventh-highest supporter of a Remain vote.