Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mossend

Mossend, a village in West Calder parish, Edinburghshire, on the left bank of West Calder Burn, 3 furlongs N of West Calder village. Pop. (1871) 940, (1881) 669.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: West Calder ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty
Place: Mossend

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