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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LASSWADE [parish] | Parish of Lasswade Do Parish of Lasswade Do Parish of Lasswade Do Do |
Statistical accounts 1845 Knox's Map of County Chalmers Caledonia Sinclairs Statistical Account Oliver & Boyd's Almanack Post Office Directory 1850 I. F. Gordon Sheriff |
006 ; 007 ; 012 ; 013 | A parish in the County of Edinburgh bounded on the north by Colinton and Liberton on the N. E.by Dalkeith and Newbattle on the east by Cockpen and Carrington on the south by Penicuik and Glencorse. The southern part of the parish of Lasswade was erected in 1835 into the Quoad Sacra parish of Roslin. In the locality, the name of the parish of Lasswade is popularly said to have originated in the circumstance of a lass doing the service of a ferry boat and wading across the river with travellers, but with better reasoning is derived by Chalmers from the Anglo-Saxon Laeswe and the old English weyde meaning jointly a well watered pasture of common use and not obscurely descriptive of site of the village. |
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