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"Pleasant Dalkeith! with its bonnie river, its gardens full of gooseberry bushes and pear-trees, its grass parks spotted with sheep, and its grand green woods."
(Extract from David Moir's "Mansie Wauch")
"A town and a parish in the East of Edinburghshire. The town stands 182 feet above sea level on a peninsular from 3 to 5 furlongs wide, between the North and South Esk`s and by roads 4 ¼ miles South by West of Musselburgh, and 6 miles South East of Edinburgh. The High Street widens Eastwards from 30 to 85 feet, and terminates at a gateway leading up to Dalkeith Palace, the principal seat of the Duke of Buccleuch, which palace, has centring round it all the chief episodes in Dalkeith`s history, must here be treated of before Dalkeith itself."
(Extract from Ordnance Gazeteer of Scotland 1885)
"The Origins of Street Names in Dalkeith" by Dr May G Williamson. Published by Midlothian Council Library Services, Tel: 0131 440 2210, in 1996. ISBN 1-900215-01-2
Monumental inscriptions for St Nicholas and West End, Dalkeith, can be found at the Local Studies Centre in Loanhead.
The parish church has records for births dating from 1609, for marriages from 1639 and for deaths from 1701. These are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh and copies on microfilm may be consulted in the Midlothain Studies Centre in Loanhead and also in LDS Family History Centres around the world.
The transcription of the section for Dalkeith from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Below is a list of the population of Dalkeith in various years.
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1801 3906 1821 5169 1841 5830 1861 7114 1871 7667 1881 7707 1891 7704
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