Lochend Loch

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Lochend, a small lake vin South Leith parish, Edinburghshire, on the burgh boundaries of both Leith and Edinburgh, 5 furlongs NW of Jocks Lodge. It lies on the margin of a plain, extending to Leith and to the base of Calton Hill; has an utmost length and breadth of 390 and 160 yards; was formerly much more extensive than now; and is believed to have been only one of a chain of lakes, occupying much of the south-western portion of the plain. It gave once water-supply to Leith for all uses. and still gives it for manufacturing uses; and is overhung, on one side, by a short range of low cliffy rocks, crowned with vestiges of the castle of Logan of Restalrig. A strip of ground along its western margin, formerly covered with its water, but now left bare, was discovered in 1871 to contain what appears to have been part of a great wooden framework sustaining an ancient lake village.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.

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