Gilmerton
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Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about southeast of the city centre.
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- Edinburgh
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- Midlothian
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- Gilmerton, Edinburgh
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Gilmerton is a suburb of Edinburgh, about southeast of the city centre.
The toponym "Gilmerton" is derived from a combination of – a personal name and later surname meaning "Servant of [the Virgin] Mary", from which comes the first element, "Gilmer", – and meaning "settlement" or "farmstead". Versions of the name are recorded from the middle of the 12th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gilmerton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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