Colinton Mains

Category

Library Item

Item no

21932

Title

Colinton Mains

Description

A view looking across a rural landscape towards rolling hills. Rows of trees separate fields and strong sunlight casts shadows from the trees in the foreground.

Artist / maker

Wyllie, H. D.

Date

1954

Size

10.7 x 16.0 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Colinton Mains, recorded in 1654 as Newmains of Colingtoune, was possibly created as the new home farm of Colinton at that time. By 1813 it was a farm of 112 acres and lay between the Braid Burn and Wester Craiglockhart with the steading on the east side of Oxgangs Road.

The south east corner of the farm was developed in 1937 and the first street, Colinton Mains Drive, was built. Other streets were built in this field alongside those in a neighbouring Oxgangs field, forming the area of Colinton Mains that we know today.

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Landscape > Land > Hills

Places > Edinburgh areas > Colinton

Places > Edinburgh areas > Oxgangs

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Plants > Trees > Trees