Gorebridge

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Gorebridge
Main street from Gorebridge
Main street from Gorebridge
Coordinates 55 ° 51 ′  N , 3 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′  N , 3 ° 3 ′  W
Gorebridge (Scotland)
Gorebridge
Gorebridge
Residents 6328 2011 census
administration
Post town GOREBRIDGE
ZIP code section EH23
prefix 01875
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Midlothian
British Parliament Midlothian
Scottish Parliament Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale

Gorebridge is a village in the Scottish Council Area Midlothian or in the traditional county of Edinburghshire . It is located about 13 kilometers southeast of central Edinburgh directly south of Newtongrange on Gore Water . The Moorfoot Hills , which mark the border between Midlothian and the neighboring Council Area Scottish Borders , rise around six kilometers to the south .

history

The history of Gorebridge is linked to the Arniston estate . Until 1309 the lands of Arniston belonged to the possessions of the Knights Templar . After these had increasingly come into the crosshairs of the Inquisition , Arniston went over to the Order of Malta . In the course of the Scottish Reformation , the lands fell to the Scottish Crown. It was James Sandilands, 1st Lord Torphichen , who acquired Arniston from Queen Mary Queen of Scots . James Dundas had the first mansion on the site built around 1620. The main components of today's Arniston House were built by 1732 .

With the beginning of the mining of coal and lime by the lords of Arniston House and Vogrie House , Gorebridge developed in the course of the 18th century. Furthermore, with the Stobs Mill in 1793, the first gunpowder factory in Scotland was established. The Arniston Colliery opened in 1858. The coal mine had two shafts that were sunk to a depth of 302 m. At its peak, the mine, closed in 1962, employed around 1,000 workers. The Vogrie Colliery was much smaller in size. Coal mining was pursued in the Gorebridge area until the end of the 1990s.

During the 19th century, Gorbridge's population increased from 240 in 1841 to 1148 in 1881. After 6037 inhabitants were counted in the 1981 census survey, the number fell in the following two decades. The 2011 census counted 6,328 residents in Gorebridge.

traffic

As early as the 16th century, a major road to Edinburgh led through the lands of Arniston House. Its course largely corresponds to today's A7 (Edinburgh - Carlisle ), which affects Gorebridge in the southwest. The B704 is the town's main thoroughfare. It connects Gorebridge in the northwest to Bonnyrigg . The branching off B6372 means access to the A68 ( Dalkeith - Darlington ) in the east.

The North British Railway opened successive sections on the section between Edinburgh and Hawick of the later Waverley Line until 1849 . The train station of Gorebridge along the route was opened on July 12, 1847th The connection to the railway network was largely responsible for the upswing of the town in the second half of the 19th century. With the abandonment of the railway line as a result of the Beeching ax on January 6, 1969, the station became obsolete. In the course of the reconstruction of the Waverley Line as Borders Railway , Gorebridge received a railway connection again in 2015.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ a b Garden and Designed Landscape - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  4. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  5. ↑ 2011 census data
  6. ↑ Entry on Gorebridge Station  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  8. ↑ Information on Gorebridge Station
  9. ↑ Information from the Scottish Department of Transport

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