Ormiston (Scotland)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Ormiston (Scotland)
Coordinates
W0025600 W0025600 N0555400 N0555400 (geonames )
Associated country
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 155237476
Wikidata: Q1009852
Library of congress: nr2002011154
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 55°54ʹ00ʺN 002°56ʹ00ʺW)
  • Ye see it a' : the Ormiston story, 2001
  • Barth. gaz. of places in Brit., 1986(Ormiston, Lothian, vil., 2 m./4 km. S. of Tranent)
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Wikipedia description:

Ormiston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, near Tranent, Humbie, Pencaitland and Cranston, located on the north bank of the River Tyne at an elevation of about 276 feet (84 m). The village was the first planned village in Scotland, founded in 1735 by John Cockburn (1685–1758), one of the initiators of the Agricultural Revolution.

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