Danderhall

Danderhall is a village in , Scotland, just outside but inside the Edinburgh City Bypass.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shawfair railway station and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Railway station
Shawfair is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 5 miles 64 chains southeast of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the villages of Danderhall and Shawfair in , Scotland.

Hospital
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.

is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of , an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ferniehill and Craigour.

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 's main street, where most local amenities are located.

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.

Suburb
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".

Danderhall

Latitude
55.91399° or 55° 54′ 50″ north
Longitude
-3.11041° or 3° 6′ 38″ west
Population
2,770
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DDH
Open location code
9C7RWV7Q+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3965249683
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7644900
Wiki­data ID
Q1012340
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Danderhall” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Danderhall
  • Dutch: Danderhall
  • French: Danderhall
  • German: Danderhall
  • Italian: Danderhall
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Danderhall
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Danderhall
  • Norwegian: Danderhall
  • Russian: Дандерхолл
  • Spanish: Danderhall
  • Welsh: Danderhall

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Danderhall Library and Danderhall Post Office.

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