Mid Calder, parish, aka Calder Comitis

Grid reference

NT 073 673 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

307300 667300

Latitude

55.88993477298352

Longitude

-3.4823389504334203

Nearby places

St Mungo's Well, Mid Calder (0.14 miles)

St Cuthbert's Church, East Calder, Kirknewton (0.75 miles)

East Calder, former parish, Kirknewton (0.75 miles)

Ladywell, settlement Mid Calder (1.43 miles)

Lady Well, Livingston (1.67 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The NGR is for the church of St John, built in the first half of the sixteenth century on the site of an earlier church. The head of a cross-shaft found in the kirkyard is now in the NMS (NMRS, Canmore ID 49058).

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/

Relationships with other parishes

Contains West Calder, modern parish (formerly)

Relationships with other places

Contains Ladywell, settlement Mid Calder

Contains Ladywell, settlement Mid Calder

Contains Pate's Hill, West Calder

Contains St Mungo's Well, Mid Calder

Contains St Mungo's Well, Mid Calder

Parish TLA

MCR

County

Midlothian

Medieval diocese

St Andrews

Parish notes

Mid-Calder is the core of the old parish of Calder-Comitis/Earlscalder. This parish was later divided, the western part become West Calder, and the old core of the parish with its kirk eventually being renamed as Mid-Calder.