In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Carlops like this:
Carlops, a village in Linton parish, NW Peeblesshire, on the North Esk river, at the boundary with Edinburghshire, 14 miles SSW of Edinburgh, and 2¾ NNE of West Linton. Founded in 1784, it came to be inhabited chiefly by cotton weavers, and now is a centre of traffic for the working of coal and limestone in its neighbourhood, and has a Free church and two inns. Carlops Hill, ¾ mile W by N, rises 1490 feet above sea-level. See Habbie's Howe and Newhall.
Carlops through time
Carlops is now part of Scottish Borders district. Click here for graphs and data of how Scottish Borders has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Carlops itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Carlops, in Scottish Borders and Peebles Shire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22364
Date accessed: 30th April 2024
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