The Grange, Edinburgh
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The Grange is a suburb of Edinburgh, about one and a half miles south of the city centre, with Morningside and Greenhill to the west and Newington to the east. It is a conservation area characterised by large late Victorian stone-built villas, often with very large gardens. Many have now been sub-divided into flats, with further flats often being built in the grounds. Some do still retain substantial mature trees and gardens.
Within the area lies the campus of the Astley Ainslie Hospital.
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From the 1860s The Grange was developed as an early suburb, built gradually upon the lands of the Grange estate — owned by the Dick Lauder family.
The mansion, The Grange House, survived until 1936. Stone wyverns from its gateposts were put at the entrance to a stretch of Lover's Loan, a centuries-old path which was preserved in a late 19th century redevelopment and marked out with high stone walls separating it from the gardens on either side. At one point the path borders the Grange Cemetery where various well-known people are buried, including Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bt., Hugh Miller, and Thomas Chalmers.
[edit] References
- Stewart-Smith, J; The Grange of St Giles, Edinburgh, 1898.
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