Lochrin is a small area in

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

, the capital of

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

. It is in the south-west corner of the city centre, to the west of Tollcross, and south of

Fountainbridge Fountainbridge is a former industrial district in Edinburgh, Scotland, a short distance west of the Old Town. It is built around the street of the same name, which begins at the West Port and continues (as Dundee Street) towards Gorgie and Da ...

. Lochrin contains a wide mixture of retail shops, leisure facilities, other businesses and

tenement A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, E ...

housing. Major new office and residential developments have replaced some of the older buildings. Lochrin Basin Fountainbridge 2

When the basins at the eastern end of the Union Canal were filled in and the canal truncated in 1921, Lochrin Basin became the eastern terminus. At that time, the

Leamington Lift Bridge The Leamington Lift Bridge is a lift bridge that crosses the Union Canal near its terminus at Lochrin Basin in Edinburgh. History The bridge was installed around 1906 where Fountainbridge Fountainbridge is a former industrial district in ...

was moved from where

crossed the canal to its current location just to the west of the basin. Canal Boats at Lochrin Basin Fountainbridge 1

Lochrin Basin is the centrepiece of Edinburgh Quay, a

mixed-use development Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions ...

providing office and residential accommodation and licensed premises, which was voted the Best Regeneration project in Scotland at the Scottish Design Awards 2005. It is also the eastern end of the

Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway The Forth and Clyde canal pathway runs between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde and is a footpath and cycleway that runs across Scotland, between Bowling, west of Glasgow, and Lochrin Basin (Edinburgh Quay) in Edinburgh. The path ru ...

References

External links

Union Canal Edinburgh
- a community website about the Lochrin Basin and Union Canal in Edinburgh, including information about building developments. {{Areas of Edinburgh Areas of Edinburgh Fountainbridge