Almshouses, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine

Category

Library Item

Item no

7643

Title

Area P. Ref No. 51. Almshouses, Kirk Loan, Corstorphine (front view)

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1927

Size

15.8 x 20.6 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Corstorphine was originally a separate village west of Edinburgh. It has been incorporated into the city and is now one of its most significant suburbs. The Forrester Family, who built Corstorphine Castle, controlled the area's lands from the 14th to the 18th century. The Castle was dismantled in the 18th century, but its doocot, or dovecot remains. The lands were subsequently owned by the Dicks, a family of Edinburgh lawyers and merchants, and later the Dicksons. Corstorphine has been home to Edinburgh Zoo since 1913.

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