Loanhead
Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a traveler belt to the south of Edinburgh, and near Roslin, Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith. The town was improved coal and oil shale mining, and the paper markets. Loanhead remains to grow, greatly because of the impact of the ongoing growth of Straiton Retail Park which includes among only 2 IKEA shops in Scotland, yet likewise increasingly as a dorm community for Edinburgh, parts of which are under 20 minutes away. Regardless of the proximity of big stores such as Sainsbury's as well as Costco, the main street, Clerk Street, is busy with web traffic and also regional customers. A huge, modern industrial estate with around 100 different concerns offers a wide range of tasks for regional residents. Services include MacSweens haggis manufacturing facility, and also Police Scotland's Communications Centre (The Force Communications Centre, or FCC) where all radio web traffic as well as emergency phone calls are dealt with. The Pentlands industrial estate was opened in the 1970s, as well as a variety of retail as well as other businesses trade from the perimeter of the community. These were from the similarity Gregg's to the much more commercial business concentrating on welding as well as steel fabrication.