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16-620: Hermiston is a hamlet formerly in the county of Midlothian and now part of Edinburgh , the capital of Scotland . It is north of Heriot-Watt University 's Riccarton Campus and west of the Hermiston Gait commercial development. Hermiston is bounded by the A71 Calder Road to the south and the Union Canal to the north with the M8 motorway just beyond. A park and ride site serving western Edinburgh

32-664: A modern road network as well as some rural single-track roads. The Borders Railway runs between Tweedbank to Edinburgh, with four stations in Midlothian – Shawfair , Eskbank , Newtongrange and Gorebridge . Midlothian is twinned with Komárom-Esztergom , Hungary and Kreis Heinsberg , Germany. Since 1978 it is a sister city with Midlothian, Illinois , a suburb of Chicago a town of Illinois . Registration county The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 divided England and Wales into registration districts . The districts were not innovations, however, but were identical to

48-488: A new district called Midlothian within the Lothian region. The Midlothian district was smaller than the area of the pre-1975 county, parts of which went to other districts: Currie , Balerno , Ratho and Newbridge to the city of Edinburgh ; Musselburgh burgh and parish of Inveresk (which included the villages of Inveresk , Wallyford and Whitecraig ) to East Lothian ; East Calder , Mid Calder and West Calder ) and

64-523: A similar manner by the grouping of poor law unions. Population data for the 1871 and 1881 censuses of Ireland was published for the registration counties. In Scotland registration districts were introduced in 1855, and registration counties were used in subsequent censuses. 34 counties are used in Scotland for land registration purposes, which is one higher than the Sasine register. The additional county, within

80-446: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Midlothian Midlothian ( / m ɪ d ˈ l oʊ ð i ə n / ; Scottish Gaelic : Meadhan Lodainn ) is registration county , lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east- central Lowlands , bordering the City of Edinburgh council area , East Lothian and

96-565: Is located south-west of the A71 Calder Road roundabout. The hamlet forms the Hermiston Conservation Area. Hermiston is also notable as the setting of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Weir of Hermiston . The city of Hermiston, Oregon in turn takes its name from the book. 55°55′4″N 3°18′48″W  /  55.91778°N 3.31333°W  / 55.91778; -3.31333 This Edinburgh location article

112-533: The Scottish Borders . The modern council area was formed in 1975 when the historic county of Midlothian , also known as Edinburghshire, was altered substantially as part of local government reforms; its southern part formed a new Midlothian District within the Region of Lothian , whilst areas on the peripheries were assigned to other districts and the city of Edinburgh, which had always been autonomous to an extent,

128-399: The poor law unions already in existence. Unions had been formed by the grouping parishes surrounding towns in which a workhouse was situated without reference to geographical county boundaries. Many PLUs included areas in two or more civil counties. Registration counties (also known as poor law counties) were formed by the aggregation of registration districts by reference to which county

144-663: The 34 counties, is the Sea which is used when land is being reclaimed from the ocean. Land registration by county was introduced by the Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868 . The Act provided that in future all writs relating to lands and heritages in Scotland should be recorded in "presentment books", with a different series for each county. For the purposes of the Act the Barony and Regality of Glasgow and

160-501: The Midlothian part of Livingston to West Lothian ; Heriot and Stow parishes to the Ettrick and Lauderdale district of the Borders region. The boundaries of the historic county of Midlothian, including the city of Edinburgh, are still used for some limited official purposes connected with land registration, being a registration county . The Midlothian lieutenancy area corresponds to

176-529: The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright were to be treated as counties. There are two paired counties that were under a single sheriff in 1868: Ross & Cromarty and Orkney & Zetland. The 1868 legislation was replaced by the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 . The 1979 Act allowed for the date and areas of operation to be fixed by statutory instrument . It was brought into operation on a phased basis using

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192-557: The council built itself a new headquarters called Midlothian House at 40-46 Buccleuch Street in Dalkeith . The Lothian region was abolished in 1996. The four districts in the region, including Midlothian, became unitary council areas . The reconstituted Midlothian Council continues to be based at Midlothian House in Dalkeith. There is a Midlothian constituency of the House of Commons . There

208-542: The current council area rather than the historic county. The last lord-lieutenant of the county of Midlothian was made lord-lieutenant for the new district of Midlothian when the reforms came into effect in 1975. The former county council's headquarters in Edinburgh became the offices of the new Lothian Regional Council, whilst the Midlothian District Council established its headquarters in Dalkeith. In 1991

224-518: The workhouse was situated in. Accordingly, the boundaries of registration counties rarely coincided with those of the civil county. Attempts to establish a single set of county boundaries in the 1880s were unsuccessful. The registration counties were used in the compilation of census results from 1851 to 1911. Civil registration was introduced to Ireland in 1864, based upon the English model. Registration counties were formed for statistical purposes in

240-660: Was a Midlothian constituency of the Scottish Parliament up to the 2011 elections when it was divided between Midlothian North and Musselburgh and Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale . The Midlothian council area contains the towns of Dalkeith , Bonnyrigg and Penicuik , as well as a portion of the Pentland Hills Regional Park , Rosslyn Chapel and Dalkeith Palace . Largest settlements by population: 18,320 16,150 14,330 13,690 8,040 6,820 3,160 2,020 1,770 1,440 Midlothian has

256-507: Was formally separated as the City of Edinburgh District. In 1996 Midlothian became a unitary authority area, using the same name and territory as in 1975. Midlothian County Council was abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , which abolished Scotland's counties and burghs as administrative areas and created a new two-tier system of upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Most of Midlothian's territory went to

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