South Gyle
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2011) |
Template:Short descriptionPage Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox UK place/styles.css has no content.
| South Gyle | |
|---|---|
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Housing in Gyle Park | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Edinburgh" does not exist. | |
| Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe". | |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] NT184719] |
| Council area | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Lieutenancy area | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
|
| Country | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Crown dependency | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | EDINBURGH |
| Postcode district | EH12 |
| Dialling code | 0131 |
| Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content. | |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Scottish Parliament | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
South Gyle (pronounced /ɡaɪl/) is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying on the western edge of the city and to the south and west of an area of former marshland once known as the Gogarloch, on the edge of Corstorphine. Most of the buildings in the area are of recent origin, dating from the later 1980s, 1990s, and early 21st century, with the exception of some farm workers' cottages and an early 1970s council estate abutting South Gyle railway station.
South Gyle can be neatly divided into two main zones – a residential one, incorporating Gogarloch and the neighbouring area centred on South Gyle Mains; and a commercial/business one which incorporates the Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh Park, Gyle Park (an actual park, but with some shopping centres near it), and South Gyle Crescent. The Royal Bank of Scotland and sportscotland are all based in this district. The Lochside development also features a number of busts of Scottish poets.[1]
Etymology
"Gyle", which is pronounced with a hard "g", is of uncertain etymology. It has been suggested that it comes from an old Gaelic word "goill" meaning a "bog", which would make sense given the former Gogar Loch in the area.[2]
There is also a North Gyle about one mile (two kilometres) away, which is named after a local farm. This is incorporated in some street names in that area.
Transport
Edinburgh Airport is nearby at Ingliston, and also close is the city bypass (A720), connecting to several major routes into the city.
South Gyle has two railway stations: South Gyle station is on the line between Edinburgh and Fife, and Edinburgh Park station provides services to Edinburgh, Stirling and Dunblane, Bathgate and to Glasgow Queen Street low-level.
Lothian Buses services 2, 12, 18, 21, 22, 22A, 32 and 36 serve the area.
Edinburgh Trams serve the area with stops at Bankhead, Edinburgh Park Station, Edinburgh Park Central (Lochside) and The Gyle Shopping centre.
North of the Gogar Roundabout, the Edinburgh Gateway Interchange opened in December 2016. It connects trains from Fife with the tram to and from the airport. A subway under the busy A8 provides access to the Gyle Shopping Centre.
Government
The Scottish Prison Service has its headquarters in South Gyle.[3]
Education
The area is served by Gylemuir Primary School, on Wester Broom Place. The closest secondary schools are St Augustine's RC High School and Forrester High School.
Political ward
Drum Brae/Gyle is the name of a political ward within the Edinburgh West UK Parliament Constituency and the Edinburgh Western Scottish Parliament constituency.
Demographics
| Ethnicity | Drum Brae/Gyle Ward | Edinburgh[4] |
|---|---|---|
| White | 85.3% | 84.9% |
| Asian | 10.1% | 8.6% |
| Black | 1.6% | 2.1% |
| Mixed | 1.4% | 2.5% |
| Other | 1.6% | 1.9% |
Notable residents
- Andrew & George Combe, 18th Century phrenologists, who lived at Redheughs during childhood.[5]
- William Neill lived here towards the end of the 1960s.[1]
References
- Bell, Raymond MacKean Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh, Leamington Books, Edinburgh 2017
- Cant, Michael, Villages of Edinburgh volumes 1 & 2, John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, 1986-1987. Template:ISBN & Template:ISBN
- Cosh, Mary Edinburgh the Golden Age (2003), Birlinn, Edinburgh
- Grant, James, Old and new Edinburgh' volumes 1–3 (or 1–6, edition dependent), Cassell, 1880s (published as a periodical): Online edition
- Harris, Stuart (1996). The Place Names of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing. p. 144. Template:ISBN.
- Wall, Ian Twelve Poets at Edinburgh Park (2005)
- RBS moving out of Drummond House, The Edinburgh Reporter: RBS moving out of Drummond House - The Edinburgh Reporter
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Leamington Books. ISBN 9780244644406.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harris, Stuart (1996). The Place Names of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Gordon Wright Publishing. p. 144. ISBN 0-903065-83-5.
- ^ "Headquarters." Scottish Prison Service. Retrieved on 30 May 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Drum Brae / Gyle (Ward, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". citypopulation.de.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cosh, Mary (2002). Edinburgh the Golden Age. Edinburgh: Birlinn.
External links
Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 404: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
