The earthwork known as "Giant's Brae", on Leith Links
Leith Links (Scottish Gaelic: Fìghdean Lìte) is the principal open space within Leith, the docks district of Edinburgh, Scotland. This public park is divided by a road into two main areas, a western section and an eastern section, both being largely flat expanses of grass bordered by mature trees. Historically it covered a wider area extending north as far as the shoreline of the Firth of Forth. This area of grass and former sand-dunes was previously used as a golf links.
LeithLinks (Scottish Gaelic: Fìghdean Lìte) is the principal open space within Leith, the docks district of Edinburgh, Scotland. This public park is...
Leith (/liːθ/; Scottish Gaelic: Lìte) is a port area in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. The earliest surviving...
The siege of Leith ended a twelve-year encampment of French troops at Leith, the port near Edinburgh, Scotland. French troops arrived in Scotland by invitation...
Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, DBE (born 18 February 1940) is a South African restaurateur, television presenter/broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist...
South Leith Parish churchyard. In 1792 the kirk agreed to a purpose-built building for the school. The building, by Robert Burn, beside LeithLinks, was...
turf, bent grass or gorse, normally near the sea-shore", as at LeithLinks or Lundin Links, the word came to mean any ground on which golf was played and...
in Edinburgh's Pilrig Park, and two gun emplacements can be seen on LeithLinks. The representatives were Jean de Monluc, Bishop of Valence, and Charles...
Congregation Lords made a truce with Guise and signed the Articles of Leith at LeithLinks on 25 July 1559 which promised religious tolerance, then withdrew...
played at LeithLinks. Their "Articles and Laws in Playing at Golf, now preserved in the National Library of Scotland, became known as the Leith Rules and...
route through the area, running from London Road, at Jock's Lodge, to LeithLinks. It is in the ward of Lochend. The place name Restalrig means ridge of...
thirteen "Rules of Golf" for its first competition which was played at LeithLinks for the "Silver Club". This trophy had been requested by the HCEG from...
day events, fun fair and stalls on LeithLinks. There have been a number of festivals of various kinds held in Leith from The Edinburgh International Festival...
they could not win. The resultant articles of truce were drafted at LeithLinks on 24 July 1559. The next day the Earls of Argyll and Glencairn, Lord...
Dawyck in 1969 and 1978. John Hope, Keeper of the Leith Walk site John Mackay (1772-1802), laid out the Leith Walk site William Roxburgh, Keeper in 1814 Francis...
The Water of Leith Conservation Trust". The Water of Leith Conservation Trust. Retrieved 26 August 2023. An audio trail, text and video links hosted by the...
Elizabeth Ross, which involved a theatrical recreation of the siege of Leith. Mary had a place made for picnic suppers in the park. Sheep continued to...
ethnic communities. The festival moved to Pilrig Park in 2000, and to LeithLinks in 2010. Running over three days in September, the event attracts around...
services to the airport where the tram is more expensive. Edinburgh and Leith were originally served by horse-drawn coaches, and then from 1871 various...
Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator. After an education at Eton and Magdalen College...
Park Arthur's Seat Inverleith Park King George Park Lauriston Castle LeithLinks Lochend Park London Road Gardens Moray Estate Gardens The Meadows Princes...
council gives the overall number of elms as 15,000 (2016). Edinburgh's LeithLinks and Meadows have some of the highest concentrations of mature elms among...
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