Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kenleith

Kenleith, a farm in Currie parish, Edinburghshire, on the western slope of the Pentlands, ¾ mile SE of Currie village. Here are vestiges of an old camp or entrenchment, said to have been formed to prevent a stealthy march upon Edinburgh through a narrow pass of the Pentlands.


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

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Feature Description: "a farm"   (ADL Feature Type: "agricultural sites")
Administrative units: Currie ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty

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