Lochrin

{{Short description|Area of Edinburgh, Scotland}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}

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Lochrin is a small area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is in the south-west corner of the city centre, to the west of Tollcross, and south of Fountainbridge.{{Google maps |url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9427476,-3.2085206,18z |title=Lochrin |accessdate=31 January 2015}} Lochrin contains a wide mixture of retail shops, leisure facilities, other businesses and tenement housing. Major new office and residential developments have replaced some of the older buildings.

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When the basins at the eastern end of the Union Canal were filled in and the canal truncated in 1921, Lochrin Basin became the eastern terminus. At that time, the Leamington Lift Bridge was moved from where Fountainbridge crossed the canal to its current location just to the west of the basin.{{Canmore |num=52717 |desc=Edinburgh, Gilmore Park, Union Canal Lifting Bridge |access-date=30 January 2015}}

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Lochrin Basin is the centrepiece of Edinburgh Quay, a mixed-use development providing office and residential accommodation and licensed premises, which was voted the Best Regeneration project in Scotland at the Scottish Design Awards 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk/edinburgh-quay |title=Edinburgh Quay – EQ1 |access-date=2015-06-30 }} It is also the eastern end of the Forth and Clyde Canal Pathway.