Districts in the Edinburgh City Region

The connectivity of the wider Edinburgh city region makes it possible to work in the city whilst commuting from a fishing village in Fife or a mill town in the Scottish Borders.

Take a train out of the city and suburban bungalows quickly give way to seaside villages with traditional roofs and fields of barley.

The coastline immediately to the east of Edinburgh (East Lothian) offers some of the best links golf in the world. It also has the driest climate in Scotland and some of the finest beaches.

Rosslyn Chapel to the south of the city (in Midlothian) is the most famous of many compelling historical sites in the area. Linlithgow Palace (in West Lothian) was the focus of the Renaissance in Scotland. The local secondary school is one of the country’s top-performing state schools. The quality of education and affordable housing contributed to the area being voted one of the best places to raise a family in the UK.

The Scottish Borders offer salmon rivers, forest walks and championship mountain bike routes. The historic city of Stirling can be reached in under an hour and is the gateway to the Highland landscapes of Perthshire and the Stirlingshire Trossachs.

Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland’s ancient capital, also represents good value for house buyers.