Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Inveresk

Inveresk, coast par. and vil. with ry. sta. (Inveresk Junction), NE. Edinburghshire - par., 5155 ac., pop. 10,537; vil., on river Esk, in S. vicinity of Musselburgh and 6½ miles E. of Edinburgh, pop. 308; the par. contains the town of Musselburgh, with Inveresk House, Inveresk Lodge, and Inveresk Paper Mills; the prftorium of the Roman station at Inveresk (now partly occupied by the parish church) has yielded some interesting antiquities.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Inveresk ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty
Place: Inveresk

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