Ratho is a dispersed rural

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located in the township of Blandford-Blenheim in Oxford County in southwestern

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. Located in old Blandford Township, at its centre are the Ratho Presbyterian Cemetery, a church and an old general store.

History

The hamlet was named by its original settlers for

Ratho 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 (historic), ...

, a village in the Rural West Edinburgh area of Edinburgh, Scotland.

References

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