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Gilmerton

Gilmerton is a suburb of , about 4 miles southeast of the city centre. The toponym "Gilmerton" is derived from a combination of Scottish Gaelic: Gille-Moire– a personal name and later surname meaning "Servant of Mary", from which comes the first element, "Gilmer", – and Old English: ton meaning "settlement" or "farmstead".
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Baile GhilleMhoire” and “Gilmerton, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gilmerton Cove and Ellen’s Glen House.

Photo: John Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of , .

Hospital
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Ellen's Glen House is a community-based which was built to provide services to elderly and mentally ill patients in , Scotland.

Hospital
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The is the oldest voluntary hospital in . It was established in 1729. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later on, the Empire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ferniehill and Moredun.

Neighborhood
is a residential neighbourhood of , the capital of Scotland. Primarily a low-density 1960s council estate with two small public parks, it is situated in the south-east of the city, lying immediately south of the slightly older Fernieside neighbourhood, east of , and to the north of Gilmerton's main street, where most local amenities are located.

Suburb
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is a district in the south-east of , the capital of . It is east of , while is situated just to its north. The estate of Gut-tres or Goodtrees was the family home of James Stewart but it was renamed House in 1769 by the new owner, David Stuart Moncrieff, in recognition of a hill on his Perthshire estate.

Neighborhood
Moredun is a district in the south-east of , the capital of . It is east of , while is situated just to its north. The estate of Gut-tres or Goodtrees was the family home of James Stewart but it was renamed Moredun House in 1769 by the new owner, David Stuart Moncrieff, in recognition of a hill on his Perthshire estate.

Gilmerton

Latitude
55.90574° or 55° 54′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.13428° or 3° 8′ 3″ west
Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)
Open location code
9C7RWV48+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29382636
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2648653
Wiki­data ID
Q4138314
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Gilmerton” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Gilmerton”
  • Chinese: “吉尔默顿”
  • Irish: “Baile GhilleMhoire”
  • Russian: “Гилмертон”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile GhilleMhoire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gilmerton”
  • “Baile GhilleMhoire”
  • “Gilmerton”
  • “Gilmerton - Baile GhilleMhoire”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gilmerton Community Centre and Gilmerton Welfare Bowling Club House.

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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 “Gilmerton”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.