Crewe Toll
Crewe Toll is an area in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital.
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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), can be identified on maps as early as those from John Adair's 17th century survey, indicating that a farm stood southeast of the present Crewe Toll.[1][2] "Toll" is shown on Gellatly's "New Map of the country 12 miles round Edinburgh published in 1834.[3] The 1853 and 1913 OS maps show a 'smithy' at the junction.[4] All buildings on the junction disappeared when it was enlarged at some point in the 1920s to take the additional traffic from the newly-constructed Telford Road.[5]
The Western General Hospital is in the vicinity. Another hospital, the Northern General, was also in the area but this is now the site of a Morrisons supermarket. Edinburgh's Telford College (tertiary) was at Crewe Toll, but has moved to a site at Granton. Fettes College (private, secondary) is close by. A major aerospace facility is situated in the area, the Selex ES facility (formerly the avionics division of Ferranti, then GEC-Ferranti, then GEC-Marconi, then BAE Systems, then SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, then SELEX Galileo) has been in this location since the 1940s.[6][7]
Some nearby Edinburgh districts include Craigleith, Pilton, Inverleith, and Silverknowes.
Coordinates: 55°58′5.63″N 3°14′9.05″W / 55.9682306°N 3.2358472°W
References
- ↑ Harris, Stuart (1996). The place names of Edinburgh : their origins and history. Edinburgh, Scotland: Gordon Wright Pub. p. 211 The Crew. ISBN 0-903065-83-5.
Shown on Adair in 1682 as Creue...
- ↑ Laurie, John. "A plan of Edinburgh and places adjacent. 1766". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ "Gellatly's New Map of the country 12 miles round Edinburgh.". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey. "Edinburghshire, Sheet 2 (includes: Edinburgh) Survey date: 1852 Publication date: 1853". National Library of Scotland.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey. "Edinburghshire Sheet III.NW (includes: Edinburgh) Publication date: 1931 Date revised: 1931". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ↑ "BAE sells Crewe Toll complex for £94m". Scotsman. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
- ↑ "Scanned image of RAF WWII oblique air photograph of Edinburgh, Crewe Toll, East Pilton.". Canmore. Retrieved 3 February 2016.