Polton

Polton

Polton is a village located in Lasswade parish, Midlothian, Scotland, anciently a superiority of the Ramsay family, cadets of Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: "Analecta Scotica", Edinburgh, 1834).

Polton was the residence of the writer Thomas de Quincey until his death in 1859.


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