Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for House of Muir

House of Muir, a common in Glencorse parish, Edinburghshire, on the eastern slope of the Pentlands, 3 miles N by W of Penicuik and 8½ S of Edinburgh. A weekly market for live stock, frequented by the Edinburgh butchers, was for some time held here; and a great annual market for sheep, held from time immemorial on the first and second Mondays of April, has fallen into almost total desuetude.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a common"   (ADL Feature Type: "parks")
Administrative units: Glencorse ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty

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