Ferry Road

Ferry Road is one of the major roads of

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, deriving its name from being the road from Queensferry to

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. It runs from the eastern end of

Davidson's Mains Davidson's Mains is a former village and now a district in the north-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is adjacent to the districts of Barnton, Cramond, Silverknowes, Blackhall and Corbiehill/House O'Hill. It was absorbed into Edinburgh as p ...

village in the west, to Leith in the east, passing through

Drylaw Drylaw is an area in the north west of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located between Blackhall, Edinburgh, Blackhall and Granton, Edinburgh, Granton. It forms the list of community council areas in Scotland, community of Drylaw–Telford. ...

Crewe Toll Crewe Toll is an area in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. The area takes its name from the Toll house which once stood at the junction of Ferry Road and Crewe Road North and South. The name Crewe, or a variation thereof (Creue, Crew or Crou), c ...

and

Goldenacre Goldenacre is an area in Edinburgh, Scotland, centred on the northern end of Inverleith Row. It lies on and to the south of Ferry Road, which forms the effective boundary with Trinity, Edinburgh, Trinity. It is part of the Inverleith Conservatio ...

on the way. It is classified as the A902 from Leith to Crewe Toll where the A902 continues as Telford Road. Notable features along the route include, in the west, the former Northern General Hospital's site (now demolished for a supermarket, the

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is also nearby), the playing fields of

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, Stewarts Melville and other private schools to the south, a geriatric home of the

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, Goldenacre stadium etc. Drylaw Police Station is also situated on Ferry Road. Leith public library is located shortly before where Ferry Road meets North Junction Street and Great Junction Street Streets in Edinburgh {{Scotland-road-stub