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Ormiston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, near Tranent, Humbie, Pencaitland and Cranston, located on the north bank of the River Tyne at an elevation of about 276 ft.
The village was the first planned village in Scotland, founded in 1735 by John Cockburn (1685–1758), one of the initiators of the Agricultural Revolution.
Ormiston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- James Ormiston (1915–1977), Canadian politician
- Ross Ormiston (born 1955), New Zealand cricketer
- Susan Ormiston (born c. 1959), Canadian journalist
- Thomas Ormiston (1878–1937), a Scottish parliamentarian
Ormiston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland.
Ormiston may also refer to:
Ormiston has been one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2014. Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Belmont, Garnerville, Gilnahirk, Sandown, Shandon, Knock and Stormont. Ormiston, along with wards from the neighbouring Titanic and Lisnasharragh DEAs, together with parts of Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council, form the Belfast East constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
The district was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Victoria District Electoral Area, which had existed since 1985. Nineteen candidates contested the first election in 2014, the most of any DEA in Northern Ireland.