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Balerno
Balerno is a residential area of Edinburgh, Scotland located 8 miles (13 kilometres) south-west of the city centre, next to Currie and then Juniper Green. Administratively, Balerno drops within the territory of the City of Edinburgh Council. Its name originates from the Scottish Gaelic Baile Àirneach, implying "townland/town of the hawthorns". The earliest written records of Balhernoch or Balernach are discovered in the late 13th century. The 18th Century brought substantial advancement to the location, with lots of brand-new flax, snuff as well as paper mills springing up around the Water of Leith and its tributary, the Bavelaw Burn (proof of flax manufacturing can be seen in Harlaw Woods). The biggest of these mills, Balerno Bank Paper Mill situated near the centre of the old village closed in the very early 1980s. After the First World War home structure began in earnest in the location and also since then property pressures have virtually overloaded industrial and also industrial ones. There was a short loop train running over what is currently the Water of Leith Walkway.