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26: 78: 706: 52:, a multi-purpose sports facility that opened as an international sports stadium in 1970. The stadium closed in 2017 and was redeveloped as a local sports and athletics facility that was officially opened on 4 November 2022. 74:
is named for the Meadowbank area although is located in Abbeyhill. The church was originally called Hollyrood Abbey Church. It is Category B listed and was built in 1899.
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and ceased used sometime after 1881. On 29 August 1851, Queen Victoria arrived at the station and was met by a large military escort and crowds.
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Meadowbank retail park lies on the western edge of Meadowbank. The retail park was built in the early 1990s and occupies the former site of a
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lies to the south of Meadowbank. Meadowbank lodge is a Category C listed lodge, built in 1858, that borders the park and Meadowbank.
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A History of Edinburgh from the Earliest Period to the Completion of the Half Century 1850
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There were two former train stations in Meadowbank, but these no longer exist.
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Meadowbank lies to the east of central Edinburgh, bordering
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The Queen's Station was a private railway station used by
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served the adjacent stadium from 1986 beginning with the
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Meadowbank

suburb
Edinburgh
Scotland
Meadowbank Stadium
Victorian era
Holyrood Park
Meadowbank Parish Church

foundry
Malt house
Abbeyhill
Lochend
Restalrig
Jock's Lodge
Piershill
A1 road
East Coast Main Line
England
Meadowbank Stadium railway station
1986 Commonwealth Games
Queen Victoria
Holyrood Palace
Old Town
North British Railway
Duncan Shaw
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
ISBN
0-00-218249-1

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