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Looking northward, up Huntersfield Road past a few shops in the middle of Gorebridge.
©Richard Webb
What we all have?
©M J Richardson
The B6372, looking south.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.1km<br/>The church, which occupies the old Free Kirk building, is part of aN independent Pentecostal movement.
©james denham
Dist:0.1km<br/>Centre of this now large village, which is finding a new post mining role as an Edinburgh dormitory.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.1km<br/>A street of new houses - part of 'Newbyres Village' in Gorebridge.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view from the top of the bus, across Hunterfield Road [B704] towards the Police Station at Gorebridge.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of many in this ex-mining area. Continue along this one for about 2.5 km and one arrives at the old Lady Victoria Colliery, which is now the Scottish Mining Museum - see [[NT3363]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Junior Football Club in Arniston Engine. Play in the East Region Superleague. Junior football is a parallel universe, where some clubs, especially in the West are bigger in terms of crowds and playing standards than some clubs lurking at the bottom of Division 3.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>An older house at Gorebridge that seems to have been marooned in an estate of newer houses.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Scotland’s first gunpowder mill began here in 1794, powered by water wheels supplied from the Gore Water by four dams and a system of lades. Gunpowder was used in mining and quarrying and also in the Napoleonic Wars. Three men died in an explosion at the mills in September 1827. The mills closed in 1861, but some ruins still remain in the woodland by the Gore Water. The stone abutment on the far bank could be the remains of one of the dams. See http://www.gorebridge.org.uk/history/content.asp?ID=91 for further details and more photographs.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of an extensive residential area on the hillside to the north of the town.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Scotland’s first gunpowder mill began here in 1794, powered by water wheels supplied from the Gore Water by four dams and a system of lades. Gunpowder was used in mining and quarrying and also in the Napoleonic Wars. Three men died in an explosion at the mills in September 1827. The mills closed in 1861, but some ruins still remain in the woodland on the banks of the Gore Water. See http://www.gorebridge.org.uk/history/content.asp?ID=91 for further details and more photographs.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Scotland’s first gunpowder mill began here in 1794, powered by water wheels supplied from the Gore Water by four dams and a system of lades. Gunpowder was used in mining and quarrying and also in the Napoleonic Wars. Three men died in an explosion at the mills in September 1827. The mills closed in 1861, but some ruins still remain in the woodland by the Gore Water. See http://www.gorebridge.org.uk/history/content.asp?ID=91 for further details and more photographs.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.4km<br/>On the route of the Gorebridge Circular Walk, descending towards the site of the old Stobsmill Gunpowder Works.
©Jim Barton

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