Gowkshill
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Gowkshill | |
Midlothian | |
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Gowkshill | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | NT346601 |
Location: | 55°49’48"N, 3°2’43"W |
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Postcode: | EH23 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Midlothian |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Midlothian |
Gowkshill is a small village in Midlothian, to the south of Newtongrange. Like Newtongrange, the village was created for coal mining, though the mines here have long since closed.
The name of the village is much older than the village itself, attachuing to the little hill on whose flank it sits. The name means "Cuckoo's Hill", from the Scots word for cuckoo, 'Gowk', itself from the Old English geac.
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