polton

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|post_town= LASSWADE

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Polton is a village located in Lasswade parish, Midlothian, Scotland, anciently a superiority of the Ramsay family, cadets of Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: Analecta Scotica, Edinburgh, 1834).

Notable residents

  • Thomas de Quincey the English writer, lived here in the latter part of his life, until his death in 1859.
  • Charles Thomas Clough an eminent geologist, lived at St Ann's Mount, Polton with his family

See also