Dalkeith
Dalkeith is a town in Midlothian, six miles southeast of Edinburgh in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's a commuter town for the city and had a population of 13,400 in 2016.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: town in Midlothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Dalkeith, Midlothian”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Newbattle Abbey and Elginhaugh.
Newbattle Abbey
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newbattle Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Newbattle in Midlothian, Scotland, which subsequently became a stately home and then an educational institution.
Elginhaugh
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elginhaugh Roman Fort was a Roman fort of the 1st century AD, located in Midlothian, Scotland. Elginhaugh is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire.
Eskbank railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eskbank is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 8 miles 25 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the towns of Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith in Midlothian, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bonnyrigg and Mayfield.
Bonnyrigg
Town
Photo: Mr H, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bonnyrigg is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, which is eight miles southeast of Edinburgh city centre, between the Rivers North and South Esk. The town had a population of 14,663 in the 2001 census which rose to 15,677 in the 2011 census, both figures based…
Mayfield
Town
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mayfield is a community in Midlothian, Scotland, located just south of Dalkeith near Edinburgh between the A68 and the A7 south. It had an estimated population of 13,690 in 2020.
Danderhall
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Danderhall is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, just outside Edinburgh but inside the Edinburgh City Bypass.
Dalkeith
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.8943° or 55° 53′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.07° or 3° 4′ 12″ westPopulation
12,300Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DLKOpen location code
9C7RVWVH+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 31315952OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Dalkeith” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Dalkeith”
- Azerbaijani: “Dalkit”
- Basque: “Dalkeith”
- Belarusian: “Далкіт”
- Bengali: “ডালকেইথ”
- Breton: “Dail Chèith”
- Cebuano: “Dalkeith”
- Chinese: “道尔奇斯”
- Chinese: “道爾奇斯”
- Chinese: “達爾基斯”
- Czech: “Dalkeith”
- Danish: “Dalkeith”
- Dutch: “Dalkeith”
- Esperanto: “Dalkeith”
- French: “Dalkeith”
- German: “Dalkeith”
- Gujarati: “દાલ્કેઈથ”
- Hebrew: “דלקית‘”
- Irish: “Dail Chè”
- Irish: “Dail Cheith”
- Irish: “Dail Chèith”
- Italian: “Dalkeith”
- Japanese: “ダルキース”
- Kannada: “ಡಾಲ್ಕೀತ್”
- Korean: “댈키스”
- Lithuanian: “Dalkitas”
- Malagasy: “Dalkeith”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dalkeith”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dalkeith”
- Norwegian: “Dalkeith”
- Persian: “دالکیت”
- Polish: “Dalkeith”
- Portuguese: “Dalkeith”
- Romanian: “Dalkeith”
- Russian: “Далкит”
- Scots: “Dawkeith”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dail Chè”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dail Chèith”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dalkeith”
- Slovak: “Dalkeith”
- Slovenian: “Dalkeith”
- Spanish: “Dalkeith”
- Swedish: “Dalkeith”
- Tamil: “டல்கெய்த்”
- Telugu: “డాల్ కైత్”
- Ukrainian: “Далкіт”
- Urdu: “دالکییتھ”
- Welsh: “Dalkeith”
- “Dail Chè”
- “Dail Chèith”
- “Dalkeith”
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