Hermiston
Hermiston is a hamlet formerly in the county of Midlothian and now part of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is north of Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton Campus and west of the Hermiston Gait commercial development.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Hermiston, Edinburgh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scott Russell Aqueduct and Edinburgh Park station.
Scott Russell Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Renata, Public domain.
The Scott Russell Aqueduct is an aqueduct carrying the Union Canal over the Edinburgh City Bypass, west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Edinburgh Park station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edinburgh Park railway station is a railway station in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, serving the Edinburgh Park business park and the Hermiston Gait shopping centre.
Oriam
Sports venue
Oriam is Scotland's national performance centre for sport, based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus in Edinburgh. 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 The Calders and Bankhead.
The Calders
Neighborhood
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Calders is a residential neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland – not to be confused with the Calders of West Lothian aka West Calder, Mid Calder and East Calder, three separate villages.
Bankhead
Neighborhood
Bankhead is a non-residential area of western Edinburgh, Scotland. It borders the Edinburgh City Bypass and Hermiston Gait to the west, the Calders neighbourhood to the south – accessed via a pedestrian underpass, Sighthill to the east, and South Gyle/Edinburgh Park to the north.
Sighthill
Suburb
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sighthill is a suburb in the west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is bordered by Broomhouse and Parkhead to the east, South Gyle to the north, the industrial suburb of Bankhead and the Calders neighbourhood to the west, and Wester Hailes to the south.
Hermiston
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.91825° or 55° 55′ 6″ northLongitude
-3.31604° or 3° 18′ 58″ westElevation
226 feet (69 metres)Open location code
9C7RWM9M+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3966284089OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Hermiston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hermiston”
- Dutch: “Hermiston”
- French: “Hermiston”
- French: “Long Hermiston”
- Welsh: “Hermiston, Caeredin”
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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 “Hermiston”. Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.