Looking SW
towards Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk                                Photograph taken September 10, 2009

 

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Figgate Pond

Location Figgate Park includes Figgate Pond and a play area for children.  The park is on the western side of Baileyfield Road, to the south of Sir Harry Lauder Road and the East Coast Railway Line. Figgate Burn (which becomes the Braid Burn further upstream) runs through Figgate Park on its way to the Firth of Forth at Portobello, about half a mile to the NE. New Broadwalk A new broadwalk was constructed on the eastern site do the pond in 2009.  A small plaque, dated May 2009, on the broadwalk refers to wetland planting, around the broadwalk, by Water Gems (Alba) Ltd. The photograph above was taken on one of two visits that i made to Figgate Pond in September 2009.  On my first visit, a heron and a kingfisher were at the pond, but neither was close enough to be photographed. The View This view looks to the SW from the broadwalk in the NE corner of Figgate Pond,  towards Arthur's Seat.  On a fine September afternoon, this section of the broadwalk with its seating offered a relaxing late afternoon view into the low sun above Arthur's Seat Arthur's Seat is an 823ft high extinct volcano in Holyrood Park.  It is about a mile and a half to the SW of Figgate Pond and close to the centre of Edinburgh. Here are more views of Figgate Pond.