Riccarton
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[edit]Riccarton
- A village and parish in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4335).
- An outer suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1769).
- A former settlement at Riccarton Junction railway station, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Roxburghshire (OS grid ref NY5497).
- 1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 810:
- Riccarton Junction, with its railwaymen's co-operative shop on the island platform, has no connection with the outside world by road; and as we move off smartly down to the south, we cannot help wondering, now that the "Junction" part is losing its meaning, what Riccarton Station's future may be.
- A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. [1]
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Villages in East Ayrshire, Scotland
- en:Villages in Scotland
- en:Places in East Ayrshire, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Suburbs of Edinburgh
- en:Places in Edinburgh
- en:Places in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland
- en:Former settlements
- en:Places in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
- English terms with quotations
- en:Suburbs in Canterbury, New Zealand
- en:Places in Canterbury, New Zealand
- en:Places in New Zealand