A virtual tour of the early history of Juniper Green
Slide 29
From the 1840s Juniper Green folk could also worship in their own village. Land "on the north side of the turnpike road leading from Edinburgh to Lanark" was bought in 1845 from Sir William Liston Foulis and the Colinton and Currie Free Church built a kirk on this site.
The eighteen -forties witnessed dynamic growth both in the social and religious fabric of the village and in the population. The censuses record 418 inhabitants in 1841 and 670 in 1851.
Both kirk and school have been rebuilt over the years but as we complete our journey around Juniper Green we come back to those public buildings which our energetic predecessors planned, financed and built 150 years ago.
Much of the information for this jaunt is taken from:
- "A Water of Leith Walk" by John Tweedie, n.d. published by the Juniper Green Village Association
- Malcolm Cant "Villages of Edinburgh Volume 2" ,1987 . John Donald
- "Foulis of Ravelston's Account Book 1671-1707" 1894 Scottish History Society