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Rosewell is a former mining village in
Midlothian Midlothian (; gd, Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east-central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh, ...
, Scotland, east of Roslin and south-west of
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. The village is in the
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of
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and was previously a separate ecclesiastical parish,Gazetteer of Scotland, 2nd edition, by W. Groome, publ. 1896. Article on Rosewell but has its own
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, namely Rosewell and District. The population of the village is 1,566 (in 2011).Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Oct 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Settlement


History

The colliery village was established by Archibald Hood, mining engineer and entrepreneur, who developed the Whitehill Colliery from 1856, which was located on the south-western edge of the village. He began a new shaft at the colliery in 1878, built railways for the mines (branching from the
Peebles Railway The Peebles Railway was a railway company that built a line connecting the town of Peebles in Peeblesshire, Scotland, with Edinburgh. It opened on 4 July 1855, and it worked its own trains. The friendly North British Railway later promoted a l ...
) and erected well-designed houses for the miners, and also encouraged the establishment of a Co-operative Retail Society. In 1890 he amalgamated his company with the mining interests of the
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to form the Lothian Coal Company. The colliery was named after Whitehill House to the east and was also known as Rosewell. On 1 January 1947 the
National Coal Board The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "v ...
took over the colliery from the Lothian Coal Company, when mines in Britain were nationalised. The colliery had 3 deep shafts and one surface mine. It reached peak production in 1950, but closed in 1961. Canmore website of
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, formerly
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(RCAHMS) https://canmore.org.uk/site/132549 - retrieved Nov 2016
Archibald Hood lived at ''Rosedale'' in the south of the village, which is now a category C listed building. This is a mid 19th century two storey gabled house which was later used by the Lothian Coal Company as a house for its managers, in particular his son James Archibald Hood. The Rosewell Institute, in Carnethie Street, was built for the Lothian Coal Company as a miners' institute in 1917. The Institute was built on an impressive scale with finely detailed sandstone features. Rosewell was served by a railway station lying between Rosewell and Hawthornden. The station opened in 1855 under the name '' Hawthornden'', but was renamed ''Rosewell and Hawthornden'' in 1928. It was served by the Peebles Railway, a branch line of the
Waverley Line The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remaind ...
. Services ran from Peebles to Waverley Station in Edinburgh. The station was closed in 1962 but the line remained in use for goods traffic until 1967, although the colliery had already closed by then. Disused Stations website www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/rosewell_hawthornden - retrieved Nov 2016


Schools

Rosewell has two primary schools, namely Rosewell Primary School and St Matthew's (Catholic) Primary School. The village is in the catchment area for Lasswade High School, and St David's Catholic High School.


Transport

Rosewell is served by
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. Service 49 runs every 20 minutes but, as it also serves Bonnyrigg and
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, it takes over an hour to reach central Edinburgh. The X31 serves Rosewell early mornings (to Edinburgh) and evenings (from Edinburgh). For walkers the
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passes close by.


Churches

The village has two churches, Rosewell Parish Church (
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) and St Matthew's Roman Catholic Church. Rosewell Parish Church was built 1871-72 and opened for worship in 1874, when Rosewell became a separate ecclesiastical parish. The population of this new ''quoad sacra'' parish was recorded as 1,394 in 1881. In 2008 Rosewell Parish Church was formally re-united with Lasswade Church, forming
Lasswade and Rosewell Parish Church Lasswade and Rosewell Parish Church serves the communities of Lasswade, Poltonhall and Rosewell, Midlothian, Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. Old Lasswade Parish Church The pre-Reformation church was abandoned in 1793 a ...
(with a single minister and Kirk Session, although retaining both places of worship).


Whitehill House

Situated half a mile south-east of the village, the category A-listed Whitehill House is a large Tudor-Jacobean revival house designed by
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and
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, built 1844 as a home for Wardlaw Ramsay, proprietor of the nearby Whitehill Colliery. The house was later acquired by the engineer Archibald Hood. In World War I it was used as a Red Cross hospital. Until the late 1990s, Whitehill House was run by nuns of the
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as St. Joseph's Hospital for children with learning disabilities. It was visited by
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when he came to Scotland in 1982. It is now privately owned and has a 20-hole (18 holes plus 2 bonus holes) golf course in its grounds. A number of exclusive houses have also been built. St Josephs also provided care for adults with learning disabilities. When the hospital closed, they established St Joseph's Service which supports people with learning disabilities in houses across Midlothian. They have their headquarters in Carnethie Street, Rosewell.


Football

Whitehill Welfare play their home matches at Ferguson Park, Rosewell. They currently play in the East of Scotland First Division. Heart of Midlothian B are playing their Lowland League matches at Ferguson Park for the 2022-23 season.


Sources

;General Reference
Scotland National Tourist Board entry
;Citations


External links


Vision of Britain - History of Rosewell in Midlothian
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