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WESTER DUDDINGSTON Wester Duddingstone Revd [Reverend] Dr.[Doctor] Macfarlan Manse Wester Duddingstone George Logan Esqr [Esquire] Principal clerk of the court of Teens Her Majesty's Register House Edinburgh 003 A small village beautifully situated at the base of 'Arthur's Seat' and in the parish of Duddingstone, consisting chiefly of neat modern self-contained villas, often enhabited during summer by families from Edinburgh. The parish church stands at the west end of the village, there are three grocers shops and three public houses, one of which is the " Abercorn Tavern" which stands at the east end of the village, and in this house prince charles slept the night before the battle of prestonpans. This village was once large and populous it had 30 weavers looms previous to. pto

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