Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Jock's Lodge

Jock's Lodge, vil., South Leith par., Edinburghshire, 1¾ mile E. of the General Post Office, Edinburgh, pop. (including Piershill Barracks and Restalrig), 1266; P.O., T.O.; at Jock's Lodge is the locomotive deptt of the North British Ry.; Piershill Barracks, erected in 1793, contain accommodation for a regiment of cavalry.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Midlothian ScoCnty
Place: Jocks Lodge

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