Loanhead, a small town in Lasswade parish, Edinburghshire, 4½ furlongs from the North Esk's left bank, and 5 miles S by E of Edinburgh by road, but 10¼ by the Roslin and Glencorse branch of the North British railway. With charming environs, including a very romantic reach of the North Esk's glen, it mainly consists of two streets, which join each other at an obtuse angle; and it contains a number of good houses, which serve as a summer retreat for some of the Edinburgh townsfolk, though its own population consists in great measure of miners and papermill-workers. It communicates with Edinburgh by public coach as well as by railway; and has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, insurance, and telegraph departments, a branch of the British Linen Company's Bank, a water supply by pipes, a police station, a public school, and a subscription-library. Places of worship are an Established quoad sacra church, a Free church, a Reformed Presbyterian church (rebuilt 1875), and St Margaret's Roman Catholic church (1878). In Feb. 1884 it was proposed to make Loanhead a police burgh. Pop. (1861) 1310, (1871) 1759, (1881) 2493, of whom 1297 were males. Houses (1881) 465, 10 vacant, 14 building.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.
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