Cameron Toll

Last updated

Cameron Toll
Lady Road, Cameron Toll, Edinburgh..jpg
Lady Road, the main road outside Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, leading to Peffermill Road and Old Dalkeith Road.
Edinburgh UK location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Cameron Toll
Location within the City of Edinburgh council area
Scotland location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Cameron Toll
Location within Scotland
Council area
Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town EDINBURGH
Postcode district EH16
Dialling code 0131
Police Scotland
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
List of places
UK
Scotland
55°55′44″N3°9′42″W / 55.92889°N 3.16167°W / 55.92889; -3.16167

Cameron Toll is a suburb located to the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally it was the site of a toll house built in the early 19th century, which was located on a stretch of road between Edinburgh and Dalkeith. Today the area is home to Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, which opened in 1984. The meaning of the name Cameron is suggested to be 'crooked hill', derived from the Scots Gaelic 'cam', crooked, and Old Irish 'brun' meaning hill, believed to refer to Arthur's Seat clearly visible nearby; the original name may have been Pictish. [1] There are a few small housing estates to the east of the area.

Contents

Cameron Toll is 2 miles from Edinburgh city centre, 2 miles from the Edinburgh City Bypass and is served by many bus services to and from Edinburgh and Midlothian. It is close to The Grange and Newington and the area called The Inch.

Cameron Toll Shopping Centre

The area is the location of Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (known as just 'Cameron Toll' to locals), Edinburgh's first ‘out of town’ shopping centre, which opened in 1984 at a cost of £33 million. Built in the former grounds of Inch House between the A7 and A701 roads, the centre occupies a 26-acre site. [2] [ citation needed ]

Cameron Toll had the first ever bank that opened on Sundays in the UK. It also led the way by having lighting which was controlled by a computer system.

The Centre originally housed parking for 1158 cars, but after McDonald's and Costa opened their new outlets, parking was reduced to 1028 spaces. [3]

The main shops in Cameron Toll are Sainsbury's and Aldi. [2] The centre also includes a Gym Group gym. [4]

From 2015 to 2018, the shopping centre underwent a major overhaul of the shops and facilities.

In September 2016, McDonald's and Costa both completed new drive-thru locations in the northeast car park. [5]

In 2017, a new Aldi store was opened, replacing the BHS location that closed in August 2016. [6]

With construction starting in 2016 and finishing in 2018, The Gym Group opened a brand new gym on the second floor of the centre, fully replacing the food court upstairs. [7]

Following the opening of the new gym, the centre changed its opening hours to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. [8]

Poundland was opened in October 2018, replacing the old Poundworld store that shut down earlier that year. [9]

The shopping centre includes several amenities, including a post box, a variety of seating and tables in the main hall, free public toilets, a petrol station, bicycle and motorcycle parking, photobooths and a water bottle refill station. [10]

The Shopping Centre has a community fund that regularly awards large sums of money to local projects and charitable causes. [11]

History of the Braid burn and flooding

The Braid Burn runs through the area. There was flooding at the bridge and causeway called the "Lady Brigend" in the 16th century. This was probably near the present bridge at "Cameron Mill lade". Local inhabitants petitioned the Privy Council of Scotland to repair the bridge and mitigate the flooding in 1595. James VI allowed them to charge a two pence toll to carriers using the bridge to pay for necessary repairs. [12] [13] The rebel Archibald Wauchope of Niddrie was captured nearby at Bridgend on 12 May 1589 by Andrew Edmonstone, after a standoff was ended by James VI of Scotland. [14]

The shopping centre was built on the low-lying flood plain of the Braid Burn, which is culverted for much of its course through this neighbourhood. Flooding of the area took place soon after the centre's opening and has recurred several times: in August 2008 local residents had to deal with metre-high floods. Between 2004 and 2010 the City of Edinburgh Council implemented flood prevention measures along much of the course of the Braid Burn. However the shopping centre and its immediate environs remain a target area for which the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) undertakes to provide flood warnings as necessary. [15]

Liberton Bank House and Conan Doyle Medical Centre

Liberton Bank House, now a category C listed building, lies on the south-west corner of the site. [16] Built around 1780, it was occupied by the educational and social reformer Mary Burton from 1844. [16] She was friendly with the Conan Doyle family and the young Arthur Conan Doyle, stayed there with her so that he could be close to his school Newington Academy at 6 Arniston Place, which he attended from 1866 to 1868. [17] It also allowed him some refuge from the influence of his alcoholic father. [18] Since a major restoration by Groves-Raines Architects in 2007 this has housed Dunedin School, which provides secondary education for pupils for whom mainstream education is not appropriate. [19] The Conan Doyle Medical Centre next to it was designed by Richard Murphy Architects and opened in 2007. [20]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh</span> Shopping mall in Edinburgh, Scotland

Ocean Terminal is the largest shopping centre in the Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is within the City of Edinburgh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Niddrie, Victoria</span> Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Niddrie is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km (6.8 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley local government area. Niddrie recorded a population of 5,901 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sciennes</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Sciennes is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, situated approximately 2 kilometres south of the city centre. It is a mainly residential district, although it is also well-known as the site of the former Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Most of its housing stock consists of terraces of four-storey Victorian tenements. The district is popular with students, thanks to its proximity to the University of Edinburgh. Its early history is linked to the presence in the area of the 16th-century Convent of St Catherine of Scienna, from which the district derives its name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Newington, Edinburgh</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Newington is a neighbourhood of southern Edinburgh, Scotland. Developed from the early 19th century, it is an affluent, predominantly residential area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Morningside, Edinburgh</span> District of Edinburgh, Scotland

Morningside is a district and former village in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies alongside the main arterial Morningside Road, part of an ancient route from Edinburgh to the south west of Scotland. The original village served several farms and estates in the area. In the 19th century, it developed as a residential suburb, its growth being stimulated by the arrival of a railway service and other transport improvements.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Craigmillar</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Craigmillar is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and Newcraighall to the east.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mortonhall</span> Area of Edinburgh, Scotland

Mortonhall is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the south edge of the city.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Niddrie, Edinburgh</span> Suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland

Niddrie is a residential suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated in the south-east of the city, south-west of the seaside area of Portobello, and west of Musselburgh in East Lothian near Fort Kinnaird retail park. The western section of Niddrie is also known by the alternative name of Craigmillar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Braid Hills</span>

The Braid Hills form an area towards the south-western edge of Edinburgh, Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilmerton</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of the city centre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liberton, Edinburgh</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Liberton is a suburb of Edinburgh the capital of Scotland. It is in the south of the city, south of The Inch, east of the Braid Hills and west of Moredun.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Wauchope</span> British Army officer

Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was a British Army officer who was killed while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Second Boer War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Braid Burn</span> River

The Braid Burn is a burn or stream 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) in length that flows through south and east Edinburgh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Inch, Edinburgh</span> District of Edinburgh

The Inch is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the south of Inch Park in the south of the city. It is located 2 miles (3 km) south south-east of central Edinburgh. It incorporates the Inch housing development, Inch Park and the category A listed Inch House, a former country house now used as a community centre. The associated Inch Doocot or dovecot, also a category A listed building, is situated close by, west of Gilmerton Road.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Inch House, Edinburgh</span> Building in Edinburgh

Inch House, a former country house situated within Inch Park in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a category A listed building. The oldest part, a Scottish vernacular L-plan tower house, dates from the early 17th century. From 1660 it was owned by the Gilmour family, who arranged for additions and extensions to the house in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was sold to the then Edinburgh Corporation in 1945. Since then it has been used as a primary school and more recently as a community centre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southside/Newington (ward)</span> Edinburgh city council ward

Southside/Newington is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it elects four Councillors. As its name suggests, the ward's territory to the south-east of the city centre is based around the communities of Newington and the South Side, also including Blackford, Cameron Toll, The Grange, Mayfield, Prestonfield and Sciennes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liberton/Gilmerton (ward)</span>

Liberton/Gilmerton is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it elects four Councillors.

Mary Hill Burton (1819–1909) was a Scottish social and educational reformer and the first woman governor of Heriot-Watt College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gracemount</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Gracemount is a neighbourhood in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland, bordering Alnwickhill and Kaimes to the west, Liberton to the north, Gilmerton to the east and Southhouse to the south.

References

  1. ↑ Ross, D.(2001) Scottish Place-names, Birlinn, Edinburgh ISBN   1-84158-173-9, p.43
  2. 1 2 "Cameron Toll Shopping Centre from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Cameron Toll Shopping Centre from The Gazetteer for Scotland". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "The Gym is opening at Cameron Toll, Edinburgh in 2018". Cameron Toll Shopping. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Costa and McDonald's to open at Cameron Toll". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "New Aldi set to open at shopping centre". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  7. ↑ "The Gym is opening at Cameron Toll, Edinburgh in 2018". Cameron Toll Shopping. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "The Gym is opening at Cameron Toll, Edinburgh in 2018". Cameron Toll Shopping. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "New Poundland store opens at Cameron Toll". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "Cameron Toll - About Edinburgh's premium shopping centre". Cameron Toll Shopping. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "Community Fund". Cameron Toll Shopping. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  12. ↑ David Masson, Register of the Privy Council, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1882), p. 227.
  13. ↑ [ citation needed ]
  14. ↑ James Paterson, History and genealogy of the family of Wauchope of Niddrie-Merschell (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 56: Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 73: David Calderwood, History of the Kirk, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1844), p. 56.
  15. ↑ "Flood Updates – SEPA Floodline". floodline.sepa.org.uk.
  16. 1 2 "Liberton Bank House (LB47155)". portal.historicenvironment.scot. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  17. ↑ sunkenroads (3 April 2016). "Liberton Bank House: Conan Doyle's childhood refuge". sunken roads. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  18. ↑ "Liberton Bank House - South Edinburgh Net :: South Edinburgh's Community Network". www.southedinburgh.net. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  19. ↑ "Dunedin School | Edinburgh" . Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  20. ↑ "Richard Murphy Architects: Conan Doyle Medical Centre At Nether Liberton Lane, Edinburgh". www.richardmurphyarchitects.com. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.