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Newbattle and, at least in 19th century, owned three-quarters of the land in the parish, including D’Arcy. Their policies (estates) took their names from personal names in the Kerr family of the Marquess of Lothian. The name D’Arcy appears on the map of the three Lothians by Andrew
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Trial drilling for petroleum oil in D’Arcy began in 1919, at a point near the crest of the
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Victorian stone farmhouse, a coach house, farm cottages and, nearby the kiln cottages. D’Arcy Wood, to the east, was the site of a Limestone Quarry. Although now private residences, D’Arcy House, coach house and farm cottages formed part of the
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Natural Petroleum in the Lothians, by Alastair C Bagnall, Oil Exploration (Holdings) Ltd, Edinburgh; in The Edinburgh Geologist, March 1979, publ.by Edinburgh Geological Society edinburghgeolsoc.org/eg_pdfs/issue05_full.pdf - retrieved Nov 2023 pp.
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Scotland, by T. Robertson and J. G. C. Anderson (vol. XXXV of the Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain), publ. H.M. Stationery Office, Edinburgh, 1949 webapps.bgs.ac.uk/Memoirs/docs/B02760.html - retrieved Nov 2023.
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Darcy Coach House, Dalkeith, Midlothian - Historic
Building Recording (archaeological report), by Philip Karsgaard, Jan. 2022 retrieved Nov 2023 from Midlothian planning dept. web site planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk
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Placenames of Midlothian, by Norman Dixon, Univ.of Edinburgh, 1933 (PhD thesis) spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The_Placenames_of_Midlothian_Norman_Dixon.pdf - retrieved Nov 2023
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Statistical Account of Edinburghshire, by the Ministers of the Respective Parishes, publ. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1845. Article on Newbattle in Midlothian volume
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