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

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'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

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site serving western Edinburgh 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 Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

novel ''

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''. The city of

Hermiston, Oregon Hermiston () is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. Its population of 20,322 makes it the largest city in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest and fastest-growing city in the Pendleton-Hermiston micropo ...

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

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