Gilmerton
Gilmerton | |
Scottish Gaelic: Baile GhilleMhoire | |
Gilmerton Post Office |
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Gilmerton |
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OS grid reference | NT2969 |
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– Edinburgh | 4 miles (6.4 km) |
Council area | Edinburgh |
Lieutenancy area | Edinburgh |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Edinburgh |
Postcode district | EH17 |
Dialling code | 0131 |
Police | Scottish |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
EU Parliament | Scotland |
UK Parliament | Edinburgh South |
Scottish Parliament | Edinburgh Eastern |
Coordinates: 55°54′25″N 3°08′04″W / 55.9069°N 3.1344°W
Gilmerton (Scottish Gaelic: Baile GhilleMhoire) is a suburb of Edinburgh, about 4 miles (6.4 km) 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 [the Virgin] Mary", from which comes the first element, "Gilmer", – and Old English: ton meaning "settlement" or "farmstead". Versions of the name are recorded from the middle of the 12th century.
Gilmerton used to be a coal mining village. Below its centre is a series of shallow linked caves collectively called Gilmerton Cove. Traditionally they were attributed to the work of a local blacksmith, George Paterson, who supposedly completed excavations in 1724 and lived in the caves for several years, although there may be reasons to doubt this.
Ethnicity
Gilmerton compared | Gilmerton | Edinburgh |
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White | 89.7% | 91.7% |
Asian | 7.3% | 5.5% |
Black | 1.1% | 1.2% |
Mixed | 0.6% | 0.9% |
Other | 1.3% | 0.8% |
Residents
The Kinloch baronets lived in Gilmerton House to the south-west of the village. Infamously Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch, 7th Baronet, murdered his half-brother Sir Francis Kinloch in Gilmerton House, in 1795 in part to inherit his baronetcy.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ The Trial of Sir Archibald Gordon Kinloch for the Murder of Sir Francis Kinloch his Brother-German, 1795