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Extract from the Dalkeith Travel Guides:
Despite its Victorian demeanour,
DALKEITH
, eight miles southeast of central Edinburgh - to which it is linked by very regular buses (#3, #30, #82) - grew up in the Middle Ages as a baronial burgh under the successive control of the Douglases and Buccleuchs. Today it's a bustling shopping centre, with an unusually broad High Street at its heart.
A mile or so south is
NEWTONGRANGE
, whose Lady Victoria Colliery is now open to the public as the
Scottish Mining Museum
(daily: Feb-Oct 10am-5pm, Nov-Jan 11am-4pm; 4), with a 1625-foot shaft and a winding tower powered by Scotland's larg...
read the whole Dalkeith Travel Guides...
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