Clermiston

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Clermiston is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is west of Hillwood.

Clermiston estate, built in 1954, was part of a massive 1950s house-building programme to tackle overcrowding in Leith and Gorgie. Now the area is home to more than 20,000 people.

The district, known 400 years ago as Glabertoun, became Clermiston in 1730, when a narrow track linked the village of Corstorphine to a small hamlet at Mutton Hole.

Used as a hunting ground by the wealthy, the Clermiston Estate was owned by the Buttercup Dairy Company until the 1950s, when Edinburgh Corporation bought it for local authority housing.

Some residents had been on the corporation’s housing register for more than seven years before they were offered their Clermiston house.

Part of the land not used by the corporation was sold off to Wimpey homes and the rest used by Queen Margaret College, now Queen Margaret University College.