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Hermiston is a hamlet formerly in the County of

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and now part of

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, the capital of

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. It is north of the

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Riccarton Campus and west of the Hermiston Quay commercial development. Hermiston is bounded by the A71 Calder Road to the south and the

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to the north with the M8 motorway just beyond. The hamlet forms the Hermiston Conservation Area. Hermiston is also notable as the setting of the

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novel, ''

Weir of Hermiston ''Weir of Hermiston'' (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is markedly different from his previous works in style and has often been praised as a potential masterpiece. It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death in 18 ...

''. The city of

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in turn takes its name from the book.

Sources

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* Bell, Raymond MacKean ''Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh'', Leamington Books, Edinburgh 2017

References

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