Gilmerton Primary School
Gilmerton Primary School is a school in Edinburgh, Scotland which is located on Moredun Dykes Road. Gilmerton Primary School is situated nearby to the pitch Gilmerton Welfare Bowling Club, as well as near the community center Gilmerton Community Centre.- Email: admin@gilmerton.edin.sch.uk
- Type: School
- Address: 2 Moredun Dykes Road, Edinburgh, EH17 8NQ
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gilmerton Cove and Ellen’s Glen House.
Gilmerton Cove
Photo: John Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilmerton Cove is a series of underground passageways and chambers hand-carved from sandstone located beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village, now a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Gilmerton Cove is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Gilmerton Primary School.
Ellen’s Glen House
Hospital
Photo: Kay Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ellen's Glen Community Hospital, originally Ellen's Glen House, is a community-based hospital which was built to provide services to elderly and mentally ill patients in Liberton, Edinburgh, Scotland. Ellen’s Glen House is situated 2,400 feet west of Gilmerton Primary School.
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. It was established in 1729. After moving to a new site in 1879, it claimed to be the largest voluntary hospital in the United Kingdom, and later, in the British Empire. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is situated 1 mile north of Gilmerton Primary School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gilmerton and Ferniehill.
Gilmerton
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, 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".
Ferniehill
Neighborhood
Ferniehill is a residential neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 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 Moredun, and to the north of Gilmerton's main street, where most local amenities are located.
Moredun
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moredun is a district in the south-east of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is east of Liberton, while Craigour 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.
Gilmerton Primary School
- Category: education
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.90757° or 55° 54′ 27″ northLongitude
-3.13826° or 3° 8′ 18″ westOperator
City of Edinburgh CouncilOpen location code
9C7RWV56+2MOpenStreetMap ID
way 30601354OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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