Publication Account

Date 1998

Event ID 1019164

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019164

One of the first actions of Dalkeith town council, founded in 1878, was to come to terms with the town's ongoing problem of inadequate supply of clean water. A year later, the pagoda-style tower was erected to hold the supply for Eskbank. By this time, the town had expanded westwards along Eskbank Road, as may still be appreciated by the number of nineteenth-century villas still standing in this area.

Information from ‘Historic Dalkeith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).