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"A police burgh and a quoad sacra parish in Lasswade parish, Edinburghshire, 4 ½ furlongs from the North Esk's left bank, and 5 miles S by E of Edinburgh by road, but 10 ¼ by the Roslin and Glencorse branch of the North British railway. With charming environs, including a very romantic reach of the North esk's glen, it mainly consists of two streets, which join each other at an obtuse angle; and it contains a number of good houses, which serve as a summer retreat for some of the Edinburgh townsfolk, though its owwn population consists in great measure of miners and those engaged in the oil-works and paper-mills."
(Extract from Ordnance Gazetteer, Scotland)
The transcription of the section for Loanhead from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Below is a list of the population of Loanhead in various years
| 1861 | 1310 |
| 1871 | 1759 |
| 1881 | 2493 |
| 1891 | 3244 |