Loanhead

Loanhead a residential community in Midlothian, Scotland, toward the south of Edinburgh, and near Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was based on coal and shale mining, and the paper business. Loanhead is additionally home to three elementary schools: the recently redesigned Paradykes essential, Loanhead essential and St Margaret's. The town has a twin town in France by the name of Harnes.

Loanhead was a little town by around 1599, when it was incorporated on a guide of the Lothians. It was conceded a sanction permitting a week by week market and yearly reasonable in 1669. Coal was mined productively in the region for Sir John Clerk of Penicuik by 1685. The Springfield paper process, in the valley of the River North Esk toward the south of the town, started in 1742, while Polton process followed in 1750. By 1754 Loanhead was a medium-sized settlement.

The limestone business was a wellspring of work by the late 18th century, the works being at Burdiehouse, about a mile toward the northwest. The coal business kept on growing and by 1874 the town was connected to the railroad. Shale was mined among Loanhead and Burdiehouse in the late 19th century, from 1880 under the Clippens Oil Company of Paisley. At this point the populace had extended to 3,250. The town was allowed burgh status in 1884. The North British Railway fabricated a steel cross section support confine viaduct crosswise over Bilston Glen 1892, supplanting another which had been planned by Thomas Bouch.