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Leisure Opportunities
We are
well served with assorted leisure opportunities within our ward ranging
through
- canal walks and boating
- cinemas
- football / martial arts /sports /activity clubs for boys and girls
- grass bowls
- library
- open parks
- play parks
- Scouts / cubs / beavers
- tennis / tennis coaching for yougsters
- ten pin bowling
- bingo
- small casino
We also have various restaurants and cafes as
well as hotels and bars and the Eric Liddell Centre at Holy Corner hosts many clubs and classes as well as a recently refurbished cafe. Polwarth Parish Church is also offering various community based activities / days.
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Open Spaces
We
have both Bruntsfield links to the south and Harrison
Park to the north with a couple of play parks and
the Union Canal with the Canal Society and boats
for hire or boat trips and even floating restaurants available. With grants made available from the City of Edinburgh Council, MCC have been able to provide several benches for people to use either to catch their breath or just enjoy the calm of the canalside. Harrison Park is one of three open spaces in Edinburgh to be awarded a Green Flag for excellence of provision and management of amenity.
The canal is a very much appreciated facility with joggers, cyclists (both pleasure or commuter traffic), walkers, families down to feed the wildlife or make use of the canal society's boats and of course the restaurant and boat trips. With the refurbishments being undertaken by British Waterways Scotland, and the Millennium Fund, the canal has been restored to its full length and we are now benefiting from waterborne tourism with canal boat holidays extending as far as the heart of Edinburgh.
Entertainment
Dominion Cinema,     0131 447 4771 Website
Church Hill Theatre, 0131 447 7597
Cineworld Cinema at Fountainpark, Dundee Street - 0871 200 2000 Website
Ten Pin Bowling at Fountainpark, Dundee Street - 0871 873 3150
Sport Merchiston Tennis and Bowling Club - 0131-228 6447 Tennis Website or Bowling Website North Merchiston (Boys and Girls) Club, Watson Crescent Phoenix Boys Club Virgin Active Health and fitness centre at Fountainpark
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