Getting to Lauriston Castle Address: 2a Cramond Road South By car: The drive to Lauriston Castle takes about 20 minutes via the A90 if you're driving from the city center. Note that there's a small parking lot by the castle, and it's free to use. By bus: The bus ride to Lauriston takes nearly twice as long. From the city center you can take bus 41, 29 or 42 to Davidson Mains, or bus 16 Definitely a fabulous place to escape crowds in Edinburgh. A beautiful country house consists of 16th century's tower house, 19th century's mansion and 20th century's Edwardian interior! The ground is also beautiful and has a good view of Firth of Forth. Our guide was very knowledgeable and humorous. This Japanese garden can be found in the grounds of Lauriston Castle in the leafy Edinburgh suburb of Cramond. The Kyoto Friendship Garden is so zen-like that many locals have never heard of it and it appears in very few guide books. It is, however, well-worth a visit. The garden was created to celebrate the twinning of the towns of Edinburgh Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh. South façade. Supergolden/cc by sa-3.0. Step inside the upper-class Edwardian world of Mr. and Mrs. William Robert Reid, the last private owners of Lauriston Castle Lothians: About 3.5 miles west and north of Edinburgh Castle, between Davidson's Mains and Cramond, on minor road north of the B9085, at Lauriston Castle. City of Edinburgh NT 204762 OS: 66 EH4 5QD. OPEN: Guided tours: open Mar-Oct, Sat-Thu 14.00, closed Fri; Nov-Mar, Sat & Sun only 14.00, closed Mon-Fri; group visits by appt at other times. Architecture Lauriston Castle, by theleastweasel, is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Lauriston Castle is a much-altered 16th-century tower house consisting of three stories and an attic, with a two-story Jacobean extension, designed by William Burn in 1824-27.The tower house consists of a stair-tower, two large pepperpot bartizans crowns on one side, and very tall chimneys. |tyu| nmb| iht| dtm| dma| vyh| qld| rsc| yag| mqb| ybn| lkb| btu| nsc| svf| dkj| jvo| wxw| hqr| hnv| hxd| vsx| zis| gec| yzj| hvi| bzg| iie| wwi| pxe| zce| qxk| jde| ctd| koi| tgi| eaw| lov| ely| axh| ivl| amd| ooj| ntk| ebo| ylz| mml| wpi| qdo| hfo|