The Maltings is the Cramond Heritage Trust’s permanent exhibition of the history of the area from 8500 BC to the present day. We will re-open ‘The Maltings’ on Saturday 4th April for our summer season

OPENING TIMES 2PM to 5 PM
EVERY SATURDAY, SUNDAY and PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
We also provide access to the archives for genealogy, history or archaeology research by appointment.

We are now a full membership organisation, if you are interested please see the section in about us.

We also open every day (2-5pm) during the Edinburgh Festival.

HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON! 

The Maltings are run entirely by volunteers, if you are interested in helping please see the about you section.

PLEASE CONTACT US

“OUT OF HOURS” ACCESS

If you have a group that wishes to visit it out with these times, we would be happy to discuss access for a special opening. Please use the contacts page to get in touch.

The Trust is based in the Maltings at 6 Riverside, Cramond (beside the stairway). This part of the building was originally the maltings for the Royal Oak Inn which stood in front of it. The hostelry was a haunt of Robert Louis Stevenson and his friends. The topics of discussion were so wide and deep that RLS described it as the “University of Cramond”

The current volunteers at CHT aim to continue this educational input in Cramond by providing a permanent exhibition site in the village showing the history of the area from 8500 BC – our earliest known evidence of human activity in the area. From then, through the Roman a era and the Dark Ages. Then the more modern times of Kirk, Village and the local estates together with the industrial influence on the river by one of Scotland’s early Iron works. It is likely that we have one of the oldest continually occupied areas in Scotland.