Dalry, Edinburgh
| Dalry | |
|---|---|
 Dalry Road |
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| Population | Unknown |
| Council area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode district | EH11 |
| Police | Scottish |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Dalry (/dælˈraɪ/) is an area of the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh. It is located close to the city centre, between Haymarket and Gorgie. The area is now primarily residential. It is centred around Dalry Road, which has numerous shops, restaurants and small businesses. Lying outside the old city walls and west of the castle, the area began as part of the agricultural estate of Dalry House (constructed in 1661), the exception being the Dalry Mill, recorded as the oldest paper mill in Scotland, now demolished. In the Victorian period industrial development followed along with large scale tenement construction, new road layouts and the addition of railway infrastructure, all of which came to occupy the former fields. By the early 21st century most of the industry of Dalry has disappeared, with the former sites converted to private housing.
The name Dalry may derive from Dail Rig or Dail Ruigh, Scottish Gaelic for the "Place of the Fields" or "King's Field" respectively. "Field of the heather" from Dail and Scottish Gaelic fhraoich, heather, has also been suggested as a derivation.
Dalry is centred on Dalry Road, which is the beginning of the A70 road. The area is often mentioned along with the neighbouring area of Gorgie to the southwest, and the joint name Gorgie-Dalry is commonly used by the City of Edinburgh Council. The border with Gorgie runs through the large site of the North British Distillery in one area, to the Tynecastle Stadium in the south-west.
The area of Fountainbridge, with the Union Canal marks the south-eastern boundary of Dalry. Fountainbridge is accessed via the Telfer Subway, a long underground passage which passes underneath the city's West Approach Road. The Telfer subway was built in the mid-19th century to provide access to the old Dalry Road Railway station from Dundee Street, but it remained as a primary pedestrian route following the replacement of the railway by the West Approach Road in the 1970s.
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