Stadiums · Central Scotland
Powderhall Stadium
Powderhall Stadium — former stadium in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Nearest railway station
- Edinburgh Waverley · 1.7 km
About
Powderhall Stadium is a stadium in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1865. Wikidata describes it as: "former stadium in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 55.9672°, -3.1938°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Powderhall Stadium, formerly the Powderhall Grounds, was a multi-sports facility overlooking the Water of Leith on Beaverhall Road, in the Powderhall (Broughton) area of northern Edinburgh, Scotland. It opened in January 1870 at the height of professional pedestrianism and was modelled on the stadium at Stamford Bridge in London. It hosted professional sprint races, track and field athletics, including the Scottish Amateur Athletics Championships on a number of occasions, professional football, international rugby, cycling, and dog races as well as boxing, quoits and pigeon shooting. For 100 years it hosted the Powderhall Sprint, the most famous professional sprint handicap in the world. With the decline of pedestrianism as a spectator sport in the 1920s it was converted to a greyhound stadium, hosting the Scottish Grand National for over sixty five years, and it also hosted professional speedway. The stadium finally closed in 1995 and the site is now a housing estate.
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Background
History
In 1695, James Balfour, the Laird of Pilrig, obtained a charter from King William III that gave him the exclusive right to manufacture gunpowder in Scotland. This required the construction of a factory, known as a powder-mill, which was built to the north of the city of Edinburgh on the shore of the Water of Leith, a small tributary of the Firth of Forth. James Balfour had sixteen children, and one of his sons, also James Balfour, was grandfather to the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1742, Thomas Mylne, the Surveyor of the City of Edinburgh, built a house with gardens on eight acres of land near this powder-mill, just over one mile west of James Balfour's Pilrig House, which he…
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- Coordinates
- 55.9672, -3.1938
- District
- City of Edinburgh
- Postcode
- EH7 4GE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith
- Established
- 1865
- Nearest railway station
- Edinburgh Waverley — 1.7 km
- Official site
- www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7236025 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Powderhall Stadium (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Edinburgh Speedway, Powderhall Stadium (1982).JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Powderhall Stadium?
- Powderhall Stadium is in central Scotland, United Kingdom (postcode EH7 4GE).
- When was Powderhall Stadium built?
- Built or established in 1865.
- Who owns Powderhall Stadium?
- Powderhall Stadium is owned by | operator =.
- How do I get to Powderhall Stadium?
- The nearest railway station is Edinburgh Waverley, about 1.7 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode EH7 4GE.