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'''Bonaly''' is an area on the south-western outskirts of [[Edinburgh]] and the northern slopes of the [[Pentland Hills]], lying within the Parish of [[Colinton]]. It is a mix of mainly post-war housing, woodland, pasture-land and heather [[moorland]]. Bonaly Burn has its sources in the hills above Bonaly and flows towards [[Oxgangs]], where it becomes the [[Braid Hills|Braid Burn]]. The [[Edinburgh City Bypass]] passes through Bonaly.
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=== Early History ===
Although now considered to be part of the [[Edinburgh]] suburb of [[Colinton]], Bonaly was originally a small settlement in its own right. This existed on the banks of the Bonaly Burn, west of the present-day site of [[Bonaly#Bonaly Tower|Bonaly Tower]], until its [[Bonaly#History#Destruction of the village|destruction]] after 1811. There is no evidence to indicate when Bonaly was first settled, but area has a long history of human occupation and the remains of an Iron Age hillfort may be seen at Clubbiedean, 2km to the south-west. <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/leaves/places/clubbiedean-hillfort.html|title=Clubbiedean Hillfort |access date=8 March 2010 |publisher=Cyberscotia.com}}</ref>
In the 12<sup>th</sup> Century, [[Norman]] [[barons]] began to arrive in Scotland and establish [[feudal]] estates. The lands of Bonaly formed part of the Barony of Redhall which also included Redhall itself, [[Oxgangs]], [[Comiston]], [[Swanston]], [[Dreghorn]], Pilmuir, [[Woodhall]] and [[Colinton]]. The earliest mention of Bonaly may be from 1280, when it appears in an account of legal proceedings concerning straying livestock. <ref>,''The Call of the Pentlands'', by Will Grant pp. 190; Grant does not give the primary source for this mention of Bonaly. </ref>
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