Gorebridge
Gorebridge is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Gorebridge has an annual Gala Day which always takes place on the 3rd Saturday in June. This is much like a town fair, with rides and games.Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gorebridge railway station and Newtongrange railway station.
Gorebridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gorebridge is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 11 miles 77 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the town of Gorebridge in Midlothian, Scotland.
Newtongrange railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtongrange is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 11 miles 77 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the town of Newtongrange in Midlothian, Scotland. Newtongrange railway station is situated 1½ miles northwest of Gorebridge.
Crichton Castle
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crichton Castle is a ruined castle near the village of Crichton in Midlothian, Scotland. It is situated at the head of the River Tyne, 2 miles south of the village of Pathhead, and the same distance east of Gorebridge. Crichton Castle is situated 2 miles east of Gorebridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birkenside and Carrington.
Birkenside
Neighborhood
Birkenside is a village, adjacent to the A7 road, at the south of Gorebridge in Midlothian, Scotland.
Carrington
Village
Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carrington is a small, rural village in Midlothian, Scotland. It is located to the south of Bonnyrigg. The civil parish of the same name has a population of 316. Carrington is situated 1½ miles southwest of Gorebridge.
Newtongrange
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtongrange is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Known in local dialect as Nitten, or Nitten by the Bing, it became Scotland's largest mining village in the 1890s, with the sinking of the Lady Victoria Colliery and a shaft over 1600 feet deep. Newtongrange is situated 1½ miles northwest of Gorebridge.
Gorebridge
- Type: Town with 7,160 residents
- Description: village in Midlothian, Scotland, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.84355° or 55° 50′ 37″ northLongitude
-3.04784° or 3° 2′ 52″ westPopulation
7,160Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GBROpen location code
9C7RRXV2+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 354939430OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Gorebridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gorebridge”
- Bulgarian: “Горебридге”
- Cebuano: “Gorebridge”
- Dutch: “Gorebridge”
- French: “Gorebridge”
- German: “Gorebridge”
- Hebrew: “גורברידג‘”
- Italian: “Gorebridge”
- Japanese: “ゴアブリッジ”
- Persian: “گوربریج”
- Polish: “Gorebridge”
- Russian: “Горбридж”
- Spanish: “Gorebridge”
- Swedish: “Gorebridge”
- Welsh: “Gorebridge”
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