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Fort Kinnaird is a large outdoor retail park in Newcraighall, located off the A1 in the south-east of Edinburgh, Scotland. Often known simply as "the Fort" to locals, it is currently [ when? ] the second largest retail park in the UK with 75 units occupied.
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Newcraighall now plays host to an out-of-town shopping complex, Fort Kinnaird, previously known as ‘’Edinburgh Fort (south of Newcraighall Road) and Kinnaird Park (north). Today, the retail park is still commonly referred to as "The Fort" by residents.
Kinnaird (Scottish Gaelic: An Ceann Àrd, "high headland") is a village in Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. It is notable for its 15th-century castle . The four-storeyed Kinnaird Castle was a stronghold of the Threiplands of Fingask, a local Jacobite family.
Kinnaird (Scottish Gaelic: An Ceann Àrd, "high headland") is a village in Atholl, and the Perth and Kinross council area of Scotland. It lies on the Kinnaird Burn, one mile from Pitlochry on the A924 road .
Kinnaird Head (Scottish Gaelic: An Ceann Àrd, "high headland") is a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the east coast of Scotland. The 16th-century Kinnaird Castle was converted in 1787 for use as the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse , the first lighthouse in Scotland to be lit by the ...
Kinnaird Head was the most powerful light of its time, and contained 17 reflectors arranged in 3 horizontal tiers. It was reported to be visible from 12 to 14 miles (10 to 12 nmi; 19 to 23 km). The first lighthouse keeper was James Park, who was paid a shilling per night and remained in the job for nearly a decade.
He was born at Kinnaird Castle near Brechin around 1490, the son of John Carnegie and his wife Euphame Strachan. His father was killed at the Battle of Flodden (9 September 1513) and his mother died a month after (possibly grief-stricken). [1] Robert inherited Kinnaird Castle at this point and extended it with a kitchen and servants wing around ...