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Lewisvale Park
Public Park (20th Century)
Site Name Lewisvale Park
Classification Public Park (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Eskgrove; Esk Grove Estate
Canmore ID 320216
Site Number NT37SW 1209
NGR NT 3485 7225
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/320216
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Inveresk (East Lothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County Midlothian
Lewisvale is a seven hectare public park situated in Inveresk to the south of Musselburgh. It was presented to the Burgh in 1911 by the local Brown family. The park was formerly part of the Esk Grove Estate and named Lewisvale after the Brown’s childhood home.
The park is accessed from Inveresk Road with adjoining Park Keeper’s Cottage and, lying on the side of the Esk Valley, is split over two levels. It includes a walled garden area with aviary, cricket pitch, tennis courts and pavilion, bandstand dating back to circa 1900, mature tree planting and shrubbery, and well maintained herbaceous borders and grassland. The stone boundary on the south and south-east sides is the original wall of the Esk Grove Estate.The site also includes Roman remains, and a stone pillar marking the encampment of the Protector Duke of Somerset 1547 which historically may have been nearer to Prestonpans.
The park was extensively restored and improved in 1998/99.
Information from the Garden History Society in Scotland, December 2012
