Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackshiels

Blackshiels, a village in the detached part of Humble parish, Haddingtonshire, surrounded by Edinburghshire, on the road from Edinburgh to Lander, near the N base of Soutra Hill, 16 miles SE of Edinburgh. It has a head post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments.


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

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: East Lothian ScoCnty       Midlothian ScoCnty

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