What is recorded here

Caroline Park House and Granton Castle Walled Garden occupy a narrow strip where fifteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century garden works overlap. The area contains walled garden remains and later glasshouses, not one unchanged palace plot. That layering suggests repeated reinvention rather than a single forgotten grand design.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, West Shore Road, Caroline Park Avenue, Caroline Park House, Granton Castle Walled Garden as Glasshouse(s) (19th Century), Walled Garden (15th Century), Walled Garden (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The walled garden at Granton Castle, associated with Caroline Park House, was likely part of a 15th-century estate, reflecting the agricultural and horticultural practices of Scotland's landed gentry. It is remembered as a surviving example of historic garden design in Edinburgh.

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