Dalkeith

Dalkeith is a town in , six miles southeast of Edinburgh in the of Scotland. It's a commuter town for the city and had a population of 13,400 in 2016.
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  • 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.

was a Cistercian monastery near the village of in , Scotland, which subsequently became a stately home and then an educational institution.

Archaeological site
Roman Fort was a Roman fort of the 1st century AD, located in , . is the most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort in the Roman Empire.

Railway station
Eskbank is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 8 miles 25 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the towns of and Dalkeith in , Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bonnyrigg and Mayfield.

Town
is a town in , , which is eight miles southeast of 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…

Town
is a community in , , located just south of Dalkeith near between the A68 and the A7 south. It had an estimated population of 13,690 in 2020.

Village
is a village in , Scotland, just outside but inside the Edinburgh City Bypass.

Dalkeith

Latitude
55.8943° or 55° 53′ 40″ north
Longitude
-3.07° or 3° 4′ 12″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DLK
Open location code
9C7RVWVH+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31315952
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2651587
Wiki­data ID
Q727520
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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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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 Wikivoyage page “Dalkeith”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0.