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Line 1: {{Short description\|Area of Edinburgh, Scotland}} ~~{{otheruses}}~~ {{other uses}} ~~{{Unreferenced stub\|auto=yes\|date=December 2009}}~~ {{Use dmy dates\|date=October 2017}} {{Use British English\|date=October 2017}} [[File:Ravelston Garden.JPG\|thumb\|Ravelston Garden, a category A listed modernist apartment block]] '''Ravelston''' is an ~~affluent~~ area of [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, to the west of the city centre, the east of [[Corstorphine]] and [[Clermiston]], the north of [[Murrayfield]], [[West End, Edinburgh\|West End]] and [[Roseburn]] and to the south of Queensferry Road (the [[A90 road\|A90]]). Ravelston is often considered to be part of the larger neighbouring area of [[Murrayfield]]. The area is primarily made up of fairly large detached and semi-detached family homes, as well as modern apartments and many bungalows. To the east of Ravelston Terrace is the Dean Path and [[Water of Leith Walkway]], while to the west lies Ravelston Dykes Golf Club, sandwiched between Ravelston and [[Corstorphine Hill]]. Ravelston is home to the [[Mary Erskine School]], an [[independent school]] incorporated into [[Stewart's Melville College]] which is on the far east side of Ravelston, both owned by the [[Merchant Company of Edinburgh]]. The former [https://faithmission.org/ Faith Mission] Bible College was in a Victorian house in Ravelston from 1886 to 1986, before moving to [[Gilmerton]]. [[Ravelston Garden]] is a 1930s [[listed building]] in the area. There are also other notable buildings including the slightly older Ravelston Lea, a large detached villa typical of the better housing in the area. ==Notable residents== Sir [[Godfrey Thomson]] lived at 5 Ravelston Dykes.<ref>{{cite journal \|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/JBA-001-095-Deary.pdf \|doi=10.5871/jba/001.095\|title=An intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir godfrey Thomson and the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947 \|year=2013 \|last1=Deary \|first1=Ian J. \|journal=Journal of the British Academy \|volume=1 \|pages=95–131 }}</ref> ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== Bell, Raymond MacKean ''Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh'', Leamington Books, Edinburgh 2017 * Cant, Michael, ''Villages of Edinburgh'' volumes 1 & 2, John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1986–1987. {{ISBN\|0-85976-131-2}} & {{ISBN\|0-85976-186-X}} * Cosh, Mary ''Edinburgh the Golden Age'' (2003), Birlinn, Edinburgh * Cowper, Alexandra Stewart ''Corstorphine Village, 1891'' (1973), Edinburgh University Extra-Mural Association * Dey, W.G. ''Corstorphine: A Pictorial History of a Midlothian Village'' (1990), Mainstream Publishing {{ISBN\|1851583661}} * Grant, James, ''Old and new Edinburgh''' volumes 1–3 (or 1–6, edition dependent), Cassell, 1880s (published as a periodical): [http://www.oldandnewedinburgh.co.uk/ Online edition] * Harris, Stuart (1996). The Place Names of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing. p. 144. {{ISBN\|0-903065-83-5}}. * Sherman, Robin ''Old Murrayfield and Corstorphine'' (2003) {{Areas of Edinburgh}}