Ratho
Ratho is a village in the rural west part of the City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,634 based on the 2010 definition of the locality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,730 residents
- Description: village in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ràthach”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edinburgh International Climbing Arena and Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh International Climbing Arena
Sports venue
Photo: Les Ailes du Desir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edinburgh International Climbing Arena is an adventure sports facility located in Ratho, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Built in a disused quarry, it is one of the largest indoor climbing walls in the world.
Bonnington Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Renata, Public domain.
The Bonnington Aqueduct is an aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ratho Station and Burnwynd.
Ratho Station
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ratho Station is a commuter village of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located in Edinburgh council area. It is located south of Edinburgh Airport; the community has a population of approximately 600.
Burnwynd
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burnwynd is a village on the border between the City of Edinburgh council area and West Lothian, Scotland. It is situated on the A71 road. Burnwynd is home to approximately twenty houses and also Hatton Tennis Club.
Newbridge
Village
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newbridge is a village in the civil parish of Kirkliston, west of Edinburgh in Scotland. It formerly belonged to Midlothian, but it has been on the western fringe of to the City of Edinburgh since 1975. Newbridge is situated 1½ miles northwest of Ratho.
Ratho
- Category: locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9215° or 55° 55′ 17″ northLongitude
-3.38341° or 3° 23′ 0″ westPopulation
1,730Elevation
292 feet (89 metres)Open location code
9C7RWJC8+HJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29172999OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639615Wikidata ID
Q1011133
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ratho” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ratho”
- Bulgarian: “Ратхо”
- Cebuano: “Ratho”
- Chinese: “拉索”
- Dutch: “Ratho”
- French: “Ratho”
- German: “Ratho”
- Irish: “Ràthach”
- Japanese: “ラーゾ”
- Japanese: “ラソ”
- Persian: “رتو”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ràthach”
- Spanish: “Ratho”
- Swedish: “Ratho”
- Welsh: “Ràthach”
- Welsh: “Ratho”
- “Ràthach”
- “Ratho”
- “Ratho - Ràthach”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ratho Community Centre and Birch Wood.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ratho”. Photo: Kitkatcrazy, CC BY-SA 3.0.