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Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:23 pm Post subject: St Margaret's Well, Meadowbank

Location: East end of Meadowbank Stadium car park on the road to the velodrome
OS Ref: NT 280 742
Latitude: 55:57:21N (55.95585)
Longitude: 3:09:14W (-3.15394)
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I think this is the original site of St Margaret's Well. In 1859 it was demolished to make way for a railway marshalling yard called St Margaret's. In 1970 the marshalling yard was in turn demolished to make way for the Meadowbank Stadium and offices. The main East coast rail line runs through the site. behind the wire fence seen in the background of this photograph.

A replica of the well was built in Holyrood Park. With the removal of the railway yard the site of the well could be marked.

This stone marks the site of
St. Margaret's Well.
The dressed stone work of the fifteenth-
century wellhouse built over this ancient
medicinal well and centre of pilgrimage
was removed in 1859 and used to build a
replica of it over St. David's Well in the
Queen's Park and the remains of
the medieval building were filled in in 1969.
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