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548 KIHKNEWTON.
KIEKNEWTON, about 10 miles west
from Edinburgh, is a parish and small
Tillage, in the sheriffdom of Mid-Lothian
and small debt district; the parish in-
cludes the ancient parochial division of
Calder Clere, now East Calder ; it is bounded
on the west by Mid-Calder, on the east
and south by Currie and Ratho, and on
the north by Kirkliston and Uphall. The
nearest station is at Mid-Calder, half a
mile distant, on the Caledonian railway.
The parish contains the village of East
Calder, which see. The Oakbank Shale oil
works, together with a few limestone quar-
ries, afford employment to a considerable
number of the inhabitants. The present
parish church, built in 1750, stands half a
mile from the village, and was renovated
in 1871 at a cost of £2,300: within the
walls of the old church, standing in the
burial ground in the village, was interred
the celebrated physician, Dr. William
Cullen, d. 5 Feb. 1790; his son Robert,
appointed a lord of session in 1796, as Lord
Cullen, and a lord of justiciary in 1799,
d. 28 Nov. 1810, and was buried in Kirk-
newton churchyard. Meadowbank is now
the seat of J. A. Maconochie-Welwood esq.
J.P.
Wilkieston is a village in the parish, 3
miles east from Mid-Calder.
Oakbank is also a village in the parish;
the population in 1901 was 933.
The principal landowners are the Earl of
Morton, John A. Maconochie-Welwood esq.
J.P. Lieut-Col. James Hare, of Calder
Hall, and William Wiikie esq.
The area comprises 9,380 acres ; rateable
value, £16,326 ; the population in 1901 was
3,221, of which the village contained 361.
Post, T., M. O., T. M. 0., E. D. & P. P. &
S. B. & A. & I. 0. Kirknewton
(Eailwav Sub-Office. Letters should
have B.'S.O. Midlothian added) ; William
Dick, postmaster. Letters arrive from
all parts & are delivered at 7.30 a.m. &
6.35 p.m. & are dispatched at 11.45 a.m.
& 5.30 & 6.10 p.m. The box closes at
10 p.m. No deliveries on Sunday, but
letters are dispatched at 5.30 p.m
Post Office, Wilkieston; Miss Agnes Mar-
shall, sub-postmistress. Letters re-
ceived from Kirknewton B.S.O. Mid-
lothian, which is the nearest money
order & telegraph office, 2 miles dis-
tant. Postal Orders are issued here &
paid. Deliveries, 8.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ;
dispatches, 3.30 & 7.30 p.m. No deli-
veries on sunday, but letters are dis-
patched at 5.30 p.m
PABISH COUNCIL.
Chairman, Jn. A. Maconochie-Welwood J.P
Clerk, William Dick
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages
for Kirknewton & East Calder, Thomas
Dick
Inspector of Poor, William Dick
Police Station, Archibald Watt, constable
Public Hall & Beading Boom, Kirknewton,
William Dick, sec
Established Church, Kirknewton, Eev. Geo.
Gardiner B.D
United Free Church, Wilkieston, Eev.
William Simpson
SCHOOL BOAED.
Chairman. John A. Maconochie-Welwood
J.P. of Meadowbank
Clerk. William Eobb
Schools : —
Kirknewton. Thomas Dick, master
Oakbank, William Milier, master
Wilkieston, Miss Copland, mistress
Sunhyside, Mjss Gibson, mistress
East Calder, James Black, master
Railway Station, Mid-Calder (for Kirknew-
ton), John Colville, station master
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Dick William, Beacon hill
Gardiner Rev. George B.D. (Established)
The Manse
Lind Sampson P. D. Ormiston villa
Marshall Robert
Scott Mrs. Linburn
Simpson Rev. William (United Free
Church), The Manse, Wilkieston
Welwood John Allan Maconochie- J.P
Meadowbank
Wilkie William, Ormiston
COMMERCIAL.
Brown James, dairyman, Latch
Coltness Iron Co. L'mited, limestone quarry
owners (James Swan, manager) (postal
address. East Calder, Mid Ca'.der)
EDINBURGHSHIRE.
Davidson James, news agent
Dick Thomas, schoolmaster & registrar of
births, deaths & marriages for Kirk-
newton & East Calder
Dick William, draper & grocer, & post
office ; clerk to parish council & inspector
of poor
Elmslie Thos. joiner & wright, Burn wynd
Elmslie William, blacksmith, Burn wynd
Gardiner John, dairyman, Aimville
Harwell John Hood, factor to John Allan
Maconochie-Welwood esq. of Meadow
bank, White Moss
Haston George, blacksmith
Kerr Andrew M. Kirknewton inn
Kirknewton Public Hall & Reading Boom
(William Dick, sec)
Marshall Agnes (Miss), grocer & post-
mistress, Wilkieston
Marshall Alexander, coal mer. & wright
Marshall Eobert, grocer & spirit dealer
Miller William, schoolmaster, Oakbank
Peebles Raphael T. upholsterer
Rankine William, clerk to Ratho parish
council & school board, Wilkieston
Russell Henry, dairyman
Smart Marion (Mrs.), grocer & spirit dealer
Wilson John, tailor
Young George, joiner
FARMERS.
Arbuckle David, Lei'thhead
Brown Robert, Se'.ms
Buchan Andrew, Humbie
Core David, Hi'i house
Dick Thomas, Wester Causewayend
Dykes Gavin, Easter Newton
Gardiner William, Ormiston & Longton
Gray James, Harperrigg
Hamilton William W. S. Cairns castle
Howat William. Lawheads
Laing James, Whitehill
Lawson Alexander B. Leyden
Manson Adam, Millrig
Marshall Robert, Kirknewton Mains
M'lvler Daniel. Coxey Dean
Muir John, Hago
Mu'r William, Newhouse
Tait Thomas, Belstane
Turnbull Andrew, Easter Causewayend
LASSWADE is a town and police burgh
and parish in Dalkeith poor combination
and small debt court district. The burgh,
which extends into the parish of Cockpen,
is 6 miles south of Edinburgh and 2 south-
west from Dalkeith. There are five railway
stations in the parish, viz. : Lasswade and
Polton (the terminus) on the Polton branch,
and Hawbhornden, Rosslynlee and Poma-
thorn, on the Peebles and Dolphinton sec-
tion of the North British railway. The
North Esk runs through the whole length
of the parish. The town has been greatly
'mproved by the erection of many substan
tial dwellings, and the opening of various
manufactories, including several paper mills
The parish church is an ancient structure,
and in the attached cemetery lie the re-
mains of William Drummond, of Hawthorn-
den, the poet, who died 4 Dec. 1649, and to
whom a memorial was erected in 1893 : one
aisle contains the burial vault for the noble
family of Dundas, and here was interred
Henry (Dundas), 1st Viscount Melville P.C.
and secretary of state during the adminis-
tration of Mr. Pitt; he died 29 May, 1811 :
the stained east window was erected in
1898 by Mrs. Moffat, of Eldin, in memory
of her husband. The organ was built
in 1897. There are traces in the
village of two religious foundations, St.
Ann's and St. Leonard's. Melville Castle,
on the bank of the Esk, is the seat of
Viscount Melville. Near here, on the same
river, is Polton, once the residence of
Constable, the printer and publisher, and
now the residence of Col. Lewis Hope ;
here also is Hawthornden, the home of
Drummond, the poet and historian, and
now the seat of Lieut. -Col. Sir James
Hamlyn Williams-Drummond bart J.P.
Pittendreich is the seat of Cyril Herbert
Dunderdale esq. Sir Walter Scott spent
the first years of his married life in a neat
cottage a little apart from the village.
John Clerk, of Eldin, author of a famous
work on naval tactics (d. 10 May, 1812)
and his son, also John Clerk, a learned
lawyer, appointed a lord of session, as
Lord Eldin, in 1823, both resided in Lass-
wade; and Thomas de Quincey, the
author of the " Life of an Opium Eater,"
and many other works, lived in a cottage
at Polton, during 1840-41. Below Haw-
thornden are three caves, which in
troublous times afforded shelter to fugi-
tives ; the largest is 90 feet in length and
12 feet wide at the entrance, gradually
tapering inwards, and 6 feet in height,
[slateh's
with a shaft cut for the admission of the"
light and air, and in a recess there is at
well, several fathoms deep. Broomie-
knowe, a hamlet in this parish, forms part
of the town and police burgh of Bonny-
rigg, which see. The area comprise*
10^,609 acres ; rateable value, £54,080,
which includes Loanhead burgh and part*
of Lasswade, Bonnyrigg and Penicuik;
burghs; the population in 1901 was 9,708,
divided as follows :— Bonnyrigg burgh,
448; Lasswade burgh, 596; Loanheada
burgh, 3,011 ; Penicuik burgh, IB and!
landward. 5,625. Lasswade burgh ex-
tends in Cockpen civil parish, total popu-
lation in 1901, 869. The population of the-
ecclesiastical parish in 1901 was 3,044.
Area of the burgh, 40 acres.
Roslin is an ecclesiastical parish formed
from Lasswade; the population in 1902
was 1,808.
Post, T., M. O., T. M. 0., E. D. & P. P.
0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Lasswade; Miss--
Margaret Gordon Chalmers, postmistress.
Deliveries, 7.30 a.m. & 12.20 p.m. & 5.0<
p.m. ; dispatches, 10.15 a.m. & 2.35, 5.10'
& 8.40 p.m. Telegraph office open from*
7.30 a.m. to 8 p.m
Post & Telegraph Office, Polton (Sub-
Office. Letters should have S.O. Mid-
lothian added); David Black, sub-post-
master. Deliveries, 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; .
dispatches, 9.25 a.m. & 2.40, 5.10 & 6.4Q>
p.m. The nearest money order office is
at Lasswade. Postal orders are issued
here, & paid
POLICE BURGH.
Provost, David McGiU
Bailies, David Shearer & David Ross, jam
Councillors, six
Town Clerk, D. B. Tod S.S.C
Medical Officer of Health, Charles James
Allan M.A., M.B., CM
Police Station, Lasswade, Robert Steele,
constable
PARISH COUNCIL.
Chairman, Rev. J. A. Burdon
Clerk, Peter Milne
Inspector of Poor & Registrar of Births,.
Deaths & Marriages, Peter Milne, Lass-
wade
PLACES OF WORSHIP.
Established Church, Rev. James Alexander
Burdon
United Free Church, Rev. John Nivison
St. Leonard's (Episcopal), Rev. John Tay-
lor Collins
Poltonhall (Mission Hall), no regular ministe
School Board, C. K. Brown, c'.erk
Schools : —
Lasswade, James Gall, master
Pentland, Thomas Lee, master
CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY.
Stations : —
Lasswade, Donald Cameron, station master
Polton, Thomas Marshall, station master
Hawthornden. Alexander Ross, station mstr
Pomathorn, Charles Gordon, station master
Rosslynlee, David Reid, station master
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Allan Charles James M.A., M.B. Oakmount
Annandale James H. The Vale, Po'.'ton
Aytoun John M.B. View park
Ballantine James, Esk grove
Brickman Fredk. William, Esk tower
Brotherston David, Glenkevock
Burdon Rev. James Alex. (Estab.), Manse-
Cough Charles T. St. Ann's mount
Collins Rev. John Taylor (Episcopal)
Dickson Mrs. Myrtle villa
Dunderdale Cyril Herbert, Pittendreich
Falconer John, St Ann's
Fowler Wm. Mount Chassie, Broomieknowe-
Gilpin Mrs. Eliza villa, Broomieknowe
Gordon Alex. W. Kevock Bank villa
Gray John, Broomieknowe
Greigh George, Grove cot. Broomieknowe
Hope Colonel Lewis, Polton house
Hunter Mrs. Lome cottage
Johnstone Alfd. Barnet bank.Broomieknws-
Kidd David, Lasswade bank
Knox Mrs. Ivanlca
Laidlaw William H. Priorwood
Lamb Albert, BeaconsfieCd
M'Kinlay Miss, East Mains
Malcolm George, Bank house
Melville ViscountMelville castle ; & Carlton.
club, London S W
Millar William- Whyte, Dunesk
Milne John Kolbe, Kevock tower
Moffat Mrs. Eldin house
Morrison William, Victoria cottage