Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Leonard's Ward, Edinburgh Canongate
Grid reference
NT 268 724 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
326800 672400
Latitude
55.939111706621055
Longitude
-3.171984540610455
County
Midlothian
Nearby places
St Leonard's, Edinburgh (0.22 miles)
St David's Well, Edinburgh Canongate (0.26 miles)
St Leonard's Chapel, Edinburgh Canongate (0.36 miles)
St Leonard's Hospital, Edinburgh (0.36 miles)
Sciennes, Edinburgh St Cuthberts (0.38 miles)
Object Classification
Settlement
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
An administrative division of the city of Edinburgh.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Canongate, parish Edinburgh
Relationships with other places
Contains St Leonard's Chapel, Edinburgh Canongate
Contains St Leonard's Hospital, Edinburgh
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Leonard's Ward
Head name
St Leonard's Ward
Place
St Leonard's Ward, Edinburgh Canongate
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Leonard (ns) (certain)
Leonard of Noblac (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
Map Layers
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Satellite map:
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Satellite map with labels:
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Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
