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Dalkeith & Around Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Dalkeith & Around Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Through Time
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The Midlothian town of Dalkeith has had an eventful history.
Cromwell's officer, General Monck, was Commander in Scotland, and
the government of the country was based out of Dalkeith Castle. In
the seventeenth century, Dalkeith had one of Scotland's largest
markets in its exceptionally broad High Street. In 1831 Dalkeith
was linked to Edinburgh by a railway line that transported coal,
minerals and agricultural produce. Two decades later, in 1853, a
corn exchange, at the time the largest indoor grain market in
Scotland, was built, and in 1879 Dalkeith was where Gladstone first
started his campaign to become British prime minister. The
surrounding villages also have their fair share of historical
significance: Newtongrange was Scotland's largest mining village in
the 1890s and today houses the National Mining Museum; Bonnyrigg
was a mining village until the 1920s; Lasswade was a popular
holiday resort in the nineteenth century for wealthy Edinburgh
residents; and in nearby Roslin is Rosslyn Chapel, famous for its
connections to the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail and which
featured in The Da Vinci Code.
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