Baltic people in the United Kingdom are those born or raised/resident in the UK who are of Estonian (although only considered Baltic geographically, not linguistically or culturally), Latvian and Lithuanian origin.
In the early 20th century, many Latvian and Lithuanian (Lithuanians in the United Kingdom) refugees began to settle in Glasgow (Lithuanian Scots) and at its height in the 1950s, there were around 10,000 in the Glasgow area.
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