This cache is situated in the village of Lasswade. ORIGIN OF
"LASSWADE" There are those who believe that the name originates
from "Jenny Lass wade" Which came from a women's song about a woman
who CARRIED people across a stream
Jenny Lasswade
- (Ian McCalman)
People came from Dalkeith, Liberton and Gilmerton
Frae Colinton and Roslin and Penicuik too
They travelled in their carriages leading to some marriages
And when A come to think of it A think A saw you
Jenny was a maiden from a village in Midlothian
She would carry gentlemen across the stream
She put 'em on her shoulder for to wade across the water
And they had tae pay her halfway there or she would drop 'em in
She carried any maiden or a mannie that is laiden
Wi' his instruments o' tradin' just as long as she wis paid
And when the flow was heavy then she added tae her levy
And the people shouted, Ready, steady, Jenny Lasswade
(as sung by The
McCalmans) |
Others, less romantic (and more likely correct!), that it
derives from the Anglo-Saxon "laes" (a common) and "weyde" (a
meadow) or from the Gaelic "leas" (a fold) and "bhead" (a
wood).
Lasswade is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River North
Esk, nine miles south of Edinburgh.
Former industries in Lasswade include paper mills, flour mills and
a carpet factory. Created a police burgh in 1881, it merged with
Bonnyrigg in 1929. It was a popular holiday resort in the 19th
Century for wealthy Edinburgh residents yet in the 1950s much of
the village's population had left for modern houses in Bonnyrigg.
Some famouse people who have stayed in Lasswade are, Sir Walter
Scott (who rented the 18th-century Barony House which was known as
Lasswade Cottage from 1798 to 1804) He was visited here by the
William Wordsworth and the writer James Hogg.
The poet William Drummond of Hawthornden is buried in the old
parish graveyard.
The Scottish landscape artist William McTaggart moved to
Lasswade in 1889.
George Forrest (George Forrest was a remarkably productive plant
collector and explorer, who made seven major expeditions and
introduced hundreds of species to western cultivation)
The Cache is situated next to the war memorial and just a 30 second
walk from The Laird and Dog Hotel.
Although I wouldn't consider the cache site to be dangerous,
keeping an eye on the kids would be a good idea!