Ratho
Ratho is a village in the rural west part of the City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland.
Ratho is a village in the rural west part of the City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,634 based on the 2010 definition of the locality. It was formerly in the old county of Midlothian. Ratho Station, Newbridge and Kirkliston are other villages in the area. The Union Canal passes through Ratho. Edinburgh Airport is situated only 4 miles (7 km) away. The village has a high ratio of its older houses built from whin stone due to a whin quarry nearby. The older, historical, part of the village was designated a Conservation Area.
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Worth seeing in and around Ratho
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 04Riccarton
Locality to the south-west of Edinburgh, the site of Heriot-Watt University's main campus
3.9 km · Wikipedia - 05
- 06Jupiter Artland
Sculpture garden and art gallery in the west of City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3.2 km · Wikipedia - 07
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Ratho
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 3 km · Glasgow (GLA), 66 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 88 km
- Stations
- Edinburgh Airport, 3.1 km · Edinburgh Airport tram stop, 3.1 km
- Glasgow → Ratho55 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £6–8
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ratho90 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Ratho153 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ratho
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ratho. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.
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Next door to Ratho
Ratho is 12 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirklistonvillage west of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.4 km
- Newbridgevillage in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2.6 km
- Ratho Stationvillage in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK1.7 km
- Gogarvillage in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK3.2 km
- Inglistonhuman settlement in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK2 km
- Burnwyndvillage in Edinburgh and West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.3 km