Merchiston

Merchiston is a prosperous, cardinal residential area in the south west of Edinburgh. The residential buildings are mostly a mixture of later Georgian, Victorian and eduardianischer villas - some of the later of Edward Calvert.

There is a campus, formerly the largest part of Edinburgh Napier University in the district; it refers to Merchiston Tower, once the home of John Napier, Laird of Merchiston 8 and inventor of logarithms with a. The University uses some other buildings in the area, including former schools and churches. The tower was in 1914 by John Scott Napier, Laird of Merchiston 14 Merchiston Castle to the School, which until 1930 when the school moved him to Colinton (with retention of Merchiston Castle name).

The district is home to the writer Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, Colin Douglas, Alexander McCall Smith and comedian Dylan Moran. J. K. Rowling has shifted its long-term residence in Merchiston after Cramond. Merchiston was also the place where Gavin Hastings and Scott Hastings spent their childhood.

In the quarter, some private schools are including the George Watson 's College and a Steiner School. At the edges of the district, where it coincides with Craiglockhart in the West, the S-Bahn runs. In the north Merchistons the Union Canal runs. To the north of the channel ( known as " North Merchiston " or Shandon, sometimes to Polwarth counted ), the " Craiglockhart Primary School " and the former Merchiston Railway Station, a station of the closed today Caledonian Railway to Edinburgh Princes Street Railway Station.

Other towns in the area are Morningside in the southeast, Burghmuirhead (including Holy Corner and Church Hill ) to the east Bruntsfield in the Northeast.