Edenstown

Edenstown CLS S NO292100 1 362 45m

    Edenstown 1828 SGF
    Edenstown 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn

en Eden + SSE town

According to Gillin and Reid (1979, 16), Edenstown, along with Giffordtown CLS and Monkstown CLS, was built after the draining of Rossie Loch and the dispersal of the village of Kinloch, which took place in 1805–6. It lies in the middle of a tract of moorland once known as Edens Muir (for which see preceding entry), and it is from this that it takes its name, rather than directly from the River Eden, which flows a mile to the south.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4