Easter Road

Easter Road is near work, so I am always seeming to be walking up and down it, never giving it much thought. However I thought this is the one time of the year when it should come into it's own, so here it is.

Easter Road is a main road in Edinburgh. It links Leith with Abbeyhill. It is so called as it was originally the 'Easter (eastern) road to Leith': there is no connection with Easter the Christian festival. As maps of Edinburgh in the late 18th century show, it had a counterpart "Wester Road" (now Broughton Road and Bonnington Road). Until the creation of Leith Walk in the mid-17th century these were the two main routes from Leith to Edinburgh.