Kirkliston occupies rising ground beside the River Almond, west of Edinburgh and close to long-used routes across the Lothians. The Place boundary follows the historic village and buildings directly connected with it. It does not absorb Newbridge, Ratho, Dalmeny, Newliston House, Foxhall, Almondhill or scattered rural sites simply because they lie nearby or share a parish name.
How Kirkliston developed
The parish church preserves exceptionally important Romanesque fabric from the later twelfth century. A seventeenth-century house, the former barony mill and the river crossing carry the story into a landscape of estates, roads and agricultural processing. During the nineteenth century a Free Church, manse, smithy, coaching inn and major distillery expressed new religious, domestic, craft and industrial activity.
Architecture and working life
The selected records connect the parish church and Thomas Chalmers Church Centre with Castle House, the war memorial, former manse, converted smithy, Maitland’s Bridge, former distillery buildings, Breast Mill and the Newliston Arms. Together they show that Kirkliston’s architectural character was made not by a single period but by worship, movement, commemoration, skilled work and repeated adaptation.
Explore responsibly
Use public streets and recognised routes, take care beside the River Almond and respect worship, memorials and burial ground. Several buildings are private homes, and former industrial ground may have restricted or changed access. A map marker identifies a recorded heritage position; it is not permission to enter land or buildings.
Every teal SA marker is a reviewed Scotland’s Architecture record. A small A, B, C or SM badge records its designation without turning it into a live HES marker. Optional map layers add separate official HES listed buildings and scheduled monuments, nearby Wikipedia articles, NLS historical mapping, walking notes and device location. Nearby SA markers are grouped at wider views. Skip the map and browse the A–Z record list.
Marker key:SA reviewed Scotland’s Architecture recordSAA small badge = designationHES, SM and W markers belong to the optional live layers
Map layers:SA records: 10HES listed: offScheduled monuments: offWikipedia: off
Use the + and − controls at the map’s upper-left to change scale. They work with both the modern and historical maps.
Nearby Heritage Records
Distances are straight-line estimates from your approximate device location. Current use is contextual information, not a promise of public access; check the record and an official visitor source before travelling.
Showing 10 mapped records. Locations are approximate catalogue points.
Map information, accuracy and rights
Locations are approximate catalogue points, not property boundaries or route guidance. Showing your location is optional: the site uses it only in this page and does not save it. Nearby distances are straight-line estimates. Current-use notes do not establish opening, access, ownership or route safety. Modern map tiles are supplied by OpenStreetMap. The optional historical overlay is the Ordnance Survey six-inch first edition for Scotland, principally surveyed in the 1840s–1880s, supplied by the National Library of Scotland. Sheet dates and coverage vary, and the historical map must not be read as current geography.
Marker links open the exact coordinates in Google Maps satellite view; they do not automatically select a panorama and do not require a paid Street View integration. On desktop, drag Pegman onto a blue road. On mobile, turn on the Street View layer and tap a blue road. Other photo markers may be user-contributed. The optional listed-buildings layer appears from city and large-town scale (zoom 12), clusters nearby designations, and links to official HES records. Lettered markers show the authoritative HES listing categories A, B and C. The separate scheduled-monuments layer appears from regional scale (zoom 10), uses purple SM markers at approximate designation centres, and links to official HES records for the full statutory boundary. It is independent of the listed-building category filter. Purple SM markers already attached to Scotland’s Architecture records remain curated catalogue markers. The separate, opt-in Wikipedia layer shows geotagged English Wikipedia articles in the current close map view. W markers are supplied independently by Wikipedia, may cover subjects beyond architecture, and are not affected by HES filters. Turning it on sends the visible map centre and approximate radius to Wikimedia; Scotland’s Architecture does not save that request. Plan a heritage walk loads a Place-wide inventory independently of the current zoom, suggests a Category A-led order of principal stops, and divides longer itineraries into Google Maps legs. It uses no paid Google integration and does not reproduce Google route geometry. The site map deliberately shows numbered stops without a connecting line; Google supplies the live pedestrian streets, paths, distance and time. Optional Category B and C candidates are selected only by proximity to a principal landmark marker and are not assumed to lie on Google’s route. Printable notes retain complete active URLs. This is a discovery aid rather than a statutory property-boundary search. For additional historic-map comparison and wider archaeological layers, visit PastMap; check current designation status and full legal extent in the linked official HES record.