Polton is a village located in Lasswade parish, Midlothian, Scotland, anciently a superiority of the Ramsay family, cadets of Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: Analecta Scotica, Edinburgh, 1834).
The village formerly had two paper mills.
Polton railway station was part of the Esk Valley Railway. The station closed in 1964.
Notable residents Thomas de Quincey the English writer, lived here in the latter part of his life, until his death in 1859. Charles Thomas Clough an eminent geologist, lived at St Ann's Mount, Polton with his family
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