Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast that explores Edinburgh’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to wild or secret spaces, learning about our city or just finding time to get outside, being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be.
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Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast that explores Edinburgh’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to wild or secret spaces, learning about our city or just finding time to get outside, being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be.
Cramond Island is a tidal island in the Forth Estuary which has a long and varied history and is really worth a visit. The area was an important port during Roman times and remains of a large fort can still be seen beside the church. The island was once a farm, a popular holiday destination and then was occupied during the first and second world wars as a strategic defence site. Many WW2 remains can still be visited including gun emplacements, armouries, lookout posts and traces of an old railway on the beach.
I crossed the causeway with Ian Rodger of the Cramond Heritage Trust to discover the history of this fascinating place. The Cramond Heritage Trust offers tours of the island via their website and also has a great museum in the Maltings on shore at Cramond itself.
To visit the island you should first checkout the safe crossing times on the South Queensferry RNLI website: https://www.queensferrylifeboat.co.uk/cramond-tides
The Cramond Heritage Trust website is here: https://cramondheritage.org.uk/
Edinburgh Outdoors
Edinburgh Outdoors is a podcast that explores Edinburgh’s green spaces and the people in them. From community gardens to wild or secret spaces, learning about our city or just finding time to get outside, being outdoors in Edinburgh is the best place to be.
