Craighall, New, a collier village on the mutual border of Liberton and Inveresk parishes, Edinburghshire, near New Hailes station on the North British, and 2 miles WSW of Musselburgh. At it are an Established chapel of ease (1878), built, like the houses, of brick, and the Benhar Coal Co. 's school, which, with accommodation for 403 children, had (1880) an average attendance of 240, and a grant of £166, 6s. Pop. (1861) 336, (1881)' 978.
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