Currie

Currie is a village and suburb on the outskirts of , Scotland, situated 7 miles south west of the city centre. Formerly within the County of Midlothian, it now falls within the jurisdiction of the City of Edinburgh Council.
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  • Type: Suburb with 6,500 residents
  • Description: village in Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Also known as: “Curraich” and “Currie, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Curriehill railway station and Currie High School.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located in Currie, a southwestern suburb of the city of , Scotland, not far from the main campus of Heriot-Watt University.

School
Currie Community High School is a six-year comprehensive school serving the south-west of the , Scotland. The school roll currently stands at 727 of whom 20% attend as a result of parental placing requests.

Sports venue
is Scotland's national performance centre for sport, based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus in . The Scottish Rugby Union and the Scottish Football Association use it as a training facility, and Heart of Midlothian F.C. rent the centre for first-team training and to run their academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Juniper Green and Baberton.

Suburb
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the outskirts of , , situated about 5.5 miles south-west of the city centre. It bridges the city bypass, and extends along the foothills of the .

Suburb
is a suburb of , the capital of Scotland. It is known as Mains, It is south-west of the Edinburgh City Bypass and and south of the Shotts Line railway line.

Hamlet
is a small area in the south-west of , , with its name deriving from the nearby Hill. It lies just south of , on the opposite side of the , and sits both east and west of the Edinburgh City Bypass…

Currie

Latitude
55.89643° or 55° 53′ 47″ north
Longitude
-3.30869° or 3° 18′ 31″ west
Population
6,500
Elevation
479 feet (146 metres)
Open location code
9C7RVMWR+HG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28102889
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2651685
Wiki­data ID
Q1144879
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Currie” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Currie”
  • Catalan: “Currie”
  • Cebuano: “Currie”
  • Chinese: “柯里”
  • French: “Currie (Écosse)”
  • French: “Currie”
  • German: “Currie (Schottland)”
  • German: “Currie”
  • Irish: “Currach”
  • Irish: “Curraich, Dún Éideann”
  • Irish: “Curraich”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Curraich, Dùn Èideann”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Curraich”
  • Swedish: “Currie, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Currie”
  • “Curraich”
  • “Currie”
  • “Currie - Curraich”

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