Loanhead
Sign in to saveLoanhead is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a commuter belt to the south of Edinburgh, and close to Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was built on coal and oil shale mining, and the paper industries.
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- UK place.scots_name
- Loanheid
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- Loanhead - geograph.org.uk - 26430.jpg
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- Bronze sculpture by Andrew Burton, known as the Coghorn, and dates from 1999
- UK place.official_name
- Loanhead
- UK place.country
- Scotland
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- ()
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- NT281655
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- Scotland
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- LOANHEAD
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- EH
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- EH20
- UK place.dial_code
- 0131
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- Midlothian
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- Midlothian
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Midlothian
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Midlothian North and Musselburgh
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Loanhead is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a commuter belt to the south of Edinburgh, and close to Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was built on coal and oil shale mining, and the paper industries.
==History== Loanhead was a tiny village by about 1599, when it was included on a map of the Lothians. It was granted a charter allowing a weekly market and annual fair in 1669. Coal was mined profitably in the area for Sir John Clerk of Penicuik by 1685. The Springfield paper mill, in the valley of the River North Esk to the south of the town, commenced in 1742, while Polton mill followed in 1750. By 1754 Loanhead was a medium-sized settlement.