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Craicrmillar and its Environs. 



village stood on both sides of the Braid Burn, and, 

 like many other villages, contained a cross, all traces 

 of which have long since disappeared. Formerly the 

 village was of considerable size, as in 1786 it con- 





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Old Cottages at The Inch. 

 tained nearly three hundred inhabitants. The mill 

 at Nether Liberton is of great antiquity, it being 

 on record that the " soir sanct," David I., bestowed 

 it upon the monks of Holyrood, as a tithe thereof, 

 with thirty cart-loads from the bush of Liberton ; 



