From www.genuki.org"A village and a parish in the south of Edinburghshire. The village, sometimes called Primrose, stands 3 furlongs from the south Esk's left bank, 2 miles West South West of Gorebridge station, 3 miles South East of Hawthornden and 5¼ miles south by west of Dalkeith. The parish is bounded North by Cockpen, East by Borthwick, South East by Temple, South by Penicuik and South West, West and North West by Lasswade."

(Extract from Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland 1885)

From www.midlothian-online.com: "A picturesque hamlet, two miles west of Gorebridge, with pantiled-roofed cottages, it has retained much of its original rural character. It was judged the best-kept village in Britain in 1978 and has also been judged best in Scotland on several occasions. The parish church, with pointed latticed windows and sundials on the corners, was built in 1711, superseding a 14th-century structure that had belonged to the Abbey of Scone. It is now used as a design studio."