Cameron Toll is a suburb located to the south of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Originally it was the site of a toll house built in the early 19th century, which was located on a stretch of road between Edinburgh and Dalkeith. The area is now dominated by a large roundabout, which is also crossed by a railway line.
Cameron Toll is 1½ miles from Edinburgh city centre, 2 miles from the Edinburgh City Bypass and is served by many bus services to and from Edinburgh and Midlothian. It is close to The Grange and Newington and parts of the same area are sometimes referred to as The Inch.
The area is home to Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, Edinburgh’s first ‘out of town’ shopping centre which opened in 1984 at a cost of £33 million. It is home to around 50 shops including one of the largest Sainsbury's supermarkets in Scotland, fashion retailers New Look, Dorothy Perkins and Peacocks, bookshop Waterstones and video game outlet Game.
Built in former grounds of Inch House, between the A7 and A701 roads the centre occupies a 26 acre site and has free parking for 1200 cars.
The centre took its name from an 1870 Tollbooth in the area - Cameron comes from the Scots Gaelic word “Camerun” meaning crooked hill, a reference to Arthur’s Seat nearby.
Since it opened in 1984 over 100 million people have shopped at Cameron Toll with around 85,000 visiting every week.
A number of eating and drinking outlets, with seating, are provided on a mezzanine floor and, in the main mall, are leading UK retailers Costa Coffee and Greggs the bakers.
When the centre originally opened it had just thirty five shop units as well as two major retail outlets – the SavaCentre hypermarket, a joint venture between British Home Stores and Sainsbury's, and a smaller Safeway (UK) supermarket. At the time of building the SavaCentre was Scotland’s largest single level store. In 1984 it had the only Sunday opening bank in the UK (TSB) and it was the first centre of its kind to use a computer controlled lighting system.
550,000 people live within a 20 minute drive of the centre which is also served well by public transport.