View across Stockbridge rooftops

Category

Library Item

Item no

12692

Title

View across Stockbridge rooftops towards Corstorphine Hill, Edinburgh

Description

A view across rooftops in Edinburgh shows a skyline full of slate roofs and chimney pots punctuated occasionally by the odd spire and turret. In the distance is the tree covered Corstorphine Hill with transmitters on its high points.

Artist / maker

Ansell, Andrew J L

Date

2007

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Originally a separate village, Stockbridge is now a largely residential area situated a mile north of Edinburgh Castle. The village developed substantially between about 1813, when the famous painter Sir Henry Raeburn began to feu his land in the area for development, and about 1850. Much of this development was conducted by the architect James Milne. With its proximity to the Water of Leith and its interesting and diverse architecture, Stockbridge is considered an attractive and popular place to live, shop and socialise.

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Architecture > Architectural features > Chimneys

Architecture > Architectural features > Roofs

Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Landscape > Land > Hills

Places > Edinburgh areas > Corstorphine

Places > Edinburgh areas > Stockbridge

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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