Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for St Leonards

St Leonards, the seat of Thomas Nelson, Esq., publisher, in the SE vicinity of Edinburgh, near the south-western base of Arthur's Seat, and 1½ mile SSE of the General Post Office. Surrounded by grounds 12 acres in extent, it is a lofty Scottish Baronial edifice, erected in 1869.70 from designs by Mr John Lessels.


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

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Feature Description: "the seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Midlothian ScoCnty

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