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*'''Corstorphine''' is a former village now part of western Ediunburgh, but retaining a kind of rustic seclusion around iots parish kirk. It is also the location of Edinburgh Zoo.
*'''Corstorphine''' is a former village now part of western Ediunburgh, but retaining a kind of rustic seclusion around iots parish kirk. It is also the location of Edinburgh Zoo.
*'''Cramond''' is the site of a [[Roman]] fort on the [[Antonine Wall]]; it lies west of the city on the shore of the [[Firth of Forth]] and boasts some antique buildings on its narrow village street. Inland, it is one of the city's most expensive residential districts. Cramond is connected by a pedestrian causeway to the uninhabited Cramond Island, about a kilometre offshore.
*'''Cramond''' is the site of a [[Roman]] fort on the [[Antonine Wall]]; it lies west of the city on the shore of the [[Firth of Forth]] and boasts some antique buildings on its narrow village street. Inland, it is one of the city's most expensive residential districts. Cramond is connected by a pedestrian causeway to the uninhabited Cramond Island, about a kilometre offshore.
*'''Portobello''', on the shore of the Firth east of the city centre, is a residential and resort settlement, although the decline of 'traditional' seaside holidays in Britain has seen its fortunes waver.
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