Currie
Currie is a Village in the county of City of Edinburgh.
There are great places to visit near Currie including some great cities and shopping centres.
Edinburgh is one of Currie's best, nearby cities to visit in Currie.
The area close to Currie boasts some of the best shopping centres including St James Quarter.
Currie History
There are some historic monuments around Currie:
- Tormain Hill,cup & ring marked rocks 700m NE of Bonnington Mains Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art SM1161
- Lochend Farm, standing stone 100m WNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1158
- Camp Hill, fort 300m N of Braidwood Bridge Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1163
- Ravensneuk Castle Secular: tower SM5609
- Union Canal, Fountainbridge to River Almond Industrial: inland water SM11097
- Catstane, inscribed stone and long cist cemetery 690m E of Carlowrie Crosses and carved stones: inscribed stone; Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard SM1183
- Dreghorn Woods training trenches, 425m WSW and 350m SW of Redford Bridge, Edinburgh 20th Century Military and Related: Pits, trenches (defensive) SM13717
- Howlet's House,towerhouse and enclosures Ecclesiastical: chapel; Secular: enclosure SM5682
- Hanging Stanes,gallows bases,Braid Road Secular: gallows, gibbet SM5884
- Cramond Island, First World War and Second World War defences 20th Century Military and Related: Artillery mount SM13684
- Gogar Mains,fort,palisaded enclosure and field system 850m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system SM4573
- Kaimes Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1172
- Uttershill Castle Secular: castle SM5063
- Craigie Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1900
- Caiy Stane,standing stone,Fairmilehead Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1155
- Easter Norton,standing stone 280m WSW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1154
- Rullion Green,stone circle Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring SM2147
- Carnethy Hill,cairn,Silverburn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM1152
- Cammo Canal Secular: garden SM6440
- Harlaw, enclosure 300m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6188
- Huly Hill, cairn & stone circle SW of Newbridge roundabout Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM1160
- Caerketton Craigs,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4118
- Cammo,standing stone Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM6189
- Lennox Tower Secular: tower SM6200
- Penicuik,St Kentigern's Church & Clerk Mausoleum Ecclesiastical: church; Secular: mausoleum SM2145
- Craigpark Quarry, enclosure 450m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6229
- Wester Craiglockhart Hill, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3193
- Lawhead Hill,fort 630m NNW of Lawhead Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1173
- Colinton Castle Secular: house SM1197
- Dalmahoy Hill, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1213
- Clubbiedean Reservoir, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6635
- Harperrig,cairn,East Cairn Hill Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM1153
- Craiglockhart Castle Secular: castle SM1198
- Baberton Mains,enclosure 400m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6190
- Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6256
- Castlelaw Range, ring ditch NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM6446
- Dalmahoy,cross slab,St Mary's Church Crosses and carved stones: cross slab SM1184
- The Gowk Stane Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM1157
- Bavelaw,steadings 60m NE of Redford Bridge Secular: farmstead SM3953
- Castlelaw, fort and souterrain 205m NNW of 20th Century Military and Related: Fort; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: souterrain, earth-house SM90064
- Castle Knowe, palisaded enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM6447
- Hunter’s Craig or Eagle Rock, rock carving, Dalmeny Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art SM13612
- Brunston Castle Secular: castle SM1192
- Cramond, Roman fort & civil settlement Roman: fort SM2526