Cramond Island seen from the air.

* Cramond Island, Edinburgh, Scotland

Offshore, Cramond Island has WW II fortifications and is linked to land by a causeway with a line of concrete pylons on one side, constructed as a submarine defence boom.

It is safe to cross over to Cramond Island between 2 hours before and 2 hours after low tide.

The island, like Cramond Island was worked as a farm, for a number of years.

Cramond Island and the causeway viewed from the mainland shore

Cramond Island and the causeway seen from the air

Cramond Island is one of 43 tidal islands that can be walked to from the mainland of Great Britain and one of 17 that can be walked to from the Scottish mainland.

The ruined farmstead on Cramond Island

Throughout most of its history, Cramond Island was used for farming, especially sheep-farming, and perhaps served as a fishing outpost as well.

WW2-era fortifications on Cramond Island

At the outbreak of World War II, Cramond Island, along with other islands in the Forth, was fortified to protect the coasts in the event of enemy warships entering the channel.

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That is where Cramond is located, called " Crawmond " in some editions of Boece.

Alex is a real person, born in Glasgow, who studied geology and engineering at the University of Edinburgh, fell in love with Andrea Cramond while there, and has continued their ( open ) relationship ever since.

A woman is his enemy in their first appearance ( Metaphormosis, Four ), showing how Andrea Cramond has made her influence felt in Alex's very core, and how his love for her has been eroded and has transmuted into anger and contempt through the rift that has opened in their relationship.

If the Barbarian's wife represents Andrea Cramond, it is another example of how deeply she has penetrated his being.

An early settlement at Cramond, near what is today Edinburgh, has been dated to around 8500 BC.

Cramond (; ) is a seaside village now part of suburban Edinburgh, Scotland, located in the north-west corner of the city at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.

Cramond is derived from the compound Caer Amon, meaning ' fort on the river ', referring to the Roman fort that lay on the River Almond.

After the departure of the Romans, little is known about the state of Cramond for several centuries.

Cramond is located at in northwest Edinburgh, about from the city centre, at the mouth of the River Almond where it enters the Firth of Forth.

For many people Cramond is associated with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, where Mr. Lowther has his home and Miss Brodie spends much of her time.

Cramond is also where the House of Shaws is located in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.

There is also a mosque within the area, the Islamic Institute on Cramond Avenue.

He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, lives.

Edinburgh West includes the wards of Cramond, Dalmeny and Kirkliston, Davidson's Mains, East Craigs, Gyle, Muirhouse and Drylaw, Murrayfield, North East Corstorphine, South Queensferry, South East Corstorphine, and Stenhouse, part of the Craigleith ward, which is split with Edinburgh Central, and part of the Pilton ward, which is split with Edinburgh North and Leith.

It is possible to reach the 18th century Cramond Village using this promenade.

It is adjacent to the districts of Barnton, Cramond, Silverknowes, Blackhall and Corbiehill / House O ' Hill.

The district is currently served by three bus routes run by Lothian Buses: the 42 which travels via Tesco between Edinburgh Park and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ; the 21 which travels to the Gyle Centre via Clermiston and to Leith in the other direction ; the 41 which travels from Cramond to Morningside.

Situated approximately one mile ( 1. 6 km ) out at sea, Cramond is a tidal island which is only connected to the mainland at low tide.

In 1997 the Cramond Lioness was uncovered in the harbour mud by a local boatman ( who received a substantial monetary reward for finding this major antiquity ), and was identified as a sandstone statue of a lioness devouring a hapless male figure, probably one of a pair at the tomb of a military commander.

The Roman presence in Scotland was not particularly strong, but Cramond is one of the most archaeologically rich sites, along with Trimontium near Melrose.

Charred hazelnut shells have been found at several other sites from this period, including Cramond, but their smaller stake holes were interpreted as remains of a temporary encampment.

Historically, the parish of Cramond extended from the shore of the Firth of Forth in the north to the parish of Corstorphine in the south, and was bounded on the west by the parishes of Dalmeny and Kirkliston and on the east by the parish of St Cuthbert's.

2nd century: Permanent Roman forts were built and occupied at Cramond and Inveresk on the western and eastern margins of the present-day city.

* Cramond, Scotland — 8500 BCE

* c. 8500 BC — Great Britain — Mesolithic hunters camp at Cramond, Prehistoric Scotland

Recently a new inscription to Condatis has been discovered at Cramond in the Lothian region of Scotland ( AE 1978, 451 ; dedicated to d ( eo ) M ( arti ) Con ).

The district had been created in 1975, under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973, and it consisted of the local government county of Midlothian, minus the burgh of Musselburgh and Calder, Cramond, Currie and Inveresk areas.

Archaeological excavations at Cramond have uncovered evidence of habitation dating to around 8500 BC, making it the earliest known site of human settlement in Scotland.