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Kirkliston is a small town and parish to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, historically within the county of West Lothian. Its population at the 2011 census was 3,386 based on the 2010 definition of the locality.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kirkliston (City of Edinburgh) )〕 It lies on the historic route between Edinburgh and Linlithgow (the B9080, formerly the A9) having a crossroads with the route from Newbridge on the A89 to South Queensferry and beyond to Fife (the B800). The B800 is variously named Path Brae, High Street, Station Road and Queensferry Road as it passes through the town. The B9080 is named Main Street and Stirling Road as it passes through. It is just north of a northward loop on the River Almond. ==History== Kirkliston originally appears in documents as Listona, Listun or Listone, derived from the Brittonic ''llys'' meaning court or manor, and the Old English ''tun'' meaning town or farmstead. In the 13th century the name was recorded as 'Temple Liston' reflecting the town's status at the time as a barony owned by the Knights Templar. The prefix 'Kirk' first appears in the 14th century, after the Knights Templar had been disbanded and their lands given to the Knights Hospitaller. Kirkliston was the location of the first recorded Parliament in Scottish history; the Estates of Scotland met there in 1235, during the reign of Alexander II of Scotland. Edward I of England made camp at the town on his way to fight Sir William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk. A number of Welsh clerics travelling with Edward are said to have rebelled, and were subsequently slaughtered. A nearby hill, Clerics' Hill, is named in commemoration of them. The oldest house in the town is Castle House which contains a marriage stone dated 1683. Robert Burns stayed there in the summer of 1787 and inscribed this verse on a window pane: ''The ants about their clod employ their care, And think the business of the world is theirs; Lo: Waxen combs seem palaces to bees. And mites conceive the world to be a cheese.'' The window pane in question is now kept at a museum in Vancouver, Canada. The eastern section of the Main Street was added as a toll road to Linlithgow around 1800 and buildings developed along it from that time. The arrival of the railway in 1842 did not seem to change the town much in the way it changed other towns and villages. The line squeezed between the town and the river, on the south-east side of the High Street, with the station placed just off the east end of the High Street. As with many other rural lines this died in the cuts of 1966. The war memorial was built to the men of the town lost in World War I on the N.E. corner of the main crossroads in 1920. Until May 1975 Kirkliston was within the old county of West Lothian. Under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 it then became part of the Lothian Region and the City of Edinburgh District. Further local government reorganisation in 1996 saw the town become part of the City of Edinburgh Council area. The City of Edinburgh Council has a small office in the local library, as well as running the library, primary school and leisure centre. From 1959 to 2001, Kirkliston was the site of the Drambuie liqueur factory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kirkliston, Stirling Road, Drambuie Production And Bottling Plant )〕 There had also been a whisky distillery in the south of the town since 1795. In later years this became a malt factory. Both factories have been demolished. In 1976 the extension to the runway at Edinburgh Airport disrupted the route from Edinburgh to the town, and started to isolate it. Further changes to the M8 and other major arterial routes in Central Scotland have served to further isolate the town and travel to the town from the city is now somewhat circuitous. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kirkliston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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