Mayfield is a community in
Midlothian
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,
Scotland
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, located just south of
Dalkeith
Dalkeith ( ; gd, Dail Cheith, IPA: ˆt̪alˈçe is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River Esk. It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1540. The settlement of Dalkeith grew southwestwards from its 12th-cent ...
near
Edinburgh
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between the
A68 and the
A7 south. It had an estimated population of in .
This housing development was built in the 1950s as overspill accommodation for the
colliery
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workers of nearby
Newtongrange
Newtongrange () is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Known in local dialect as ''Nitten'', or ''Nitten by the Bing'' (),
it became Scotland's largest mining village in the 1890s, with the sinking of the Lady Victoria Colliery an ...
and
Easthouses
Easthouses is a settlement in Midlothian, Scotland, lying to the east of Newtongrange and south of Dalkeith. It forms the northern extension of the settlement of Mayfield, with which it is closely associated; the two communities have a combined p ...
and for other essential workers, as well as to house the workforce for a small but relatively successful
industrial estate
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. The decline of the coal industry in the 1980s led to the closure of the collieries.
The massive growth in population in this part of
Newbattle parish in the 1950s led to the existing mining village of Easthouses being virtually 'swallowed up' into the new housing development of Mayfield, which today has a population similar to that of a small town.
With the communities of Mayfield and Easthouses ever expanding, in 1955 the
Church of Scotland
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The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...
had an additiona
churchbuilding erected within Newbattle parish. Mayfield and Easthouses church was built in a more utilitarian and functional style than the 18th century building at Newbattle, as it had to double as both a place of worship and a place where the various church and other organisations (e.g. Boys Brigade
nchor Boys, Junior Section, and Company Section Girls Brigade, Cubs, Scouts, and Brownies) could establish themselves.
There are three primary schools: Mayfield Primary School which is conjoined with St. Luke's RC Primary School, and Lawfield Primary School (a new school made up of the former Langlaw Primary and Bryans Primary).
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Populated places in Midlothian
Housing estates in Scotland
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