Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fountainhall

Fountainhall, a hamlet in Stow parish, SE Edinburghshire, on the right bank of Gala Water, with a station on the North British railway, 4¼ . miles NNW of Stow village, under which it has a post office.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stow ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty
Place: Fountainhall

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