Tollcross Guide Your local guide to Tollcross, Edinburgh

Tollcross Guide

Your local guide to Tollcross, Edinburgh

Latest Articles

Bar, Cross and Boundary Stone: Unpicking the Name Tollcross — and the Walk That Explains It
Local History

Bar, Cross and Boundary Stone: Unpicking the Name Tollcross — and the Walk That Explains It

Every time you say 'Tollcross' you're quoting a transaction from three hundred years ago. A look at the toll bar, the cross and the boundary stones behind the name — plus a short self-guided walk, and the shopkeepers and campaigners who have kept the neighbourhood's edge-of-town character intact.
After Dark in Tollcross: One Winter Evening, Mapped Hour by Hour
Evening Guides

After Dark in Tollcross: One Winter Evening, Mapped Hour by Hour

November in Edinburgh gets dark before most people have left the office, which makes Tollcross the ideal place to lean into it. Here's a single evening — pre-theatre plate, panto curtain-up, late-lit windows and a walk home across the Meadows — with times, rough prices and wet-weather swaps built in.