Loanhead
Loanhead (pop. 6,900) is a small town in Midlothian, Scotland, in a traveler belt to the south of Edinburgh, as well as close to Roslin, Bonnyrigg as well as Dalkeith. The community was improved coal as well as oil shale mining, as well as the paper industries. Loanhead continues to expand, mostly due to the influence of the ongoing development of Straiton Retail Park that includes one of only two IKEA shops in Scotland, however additionally progressively as a dormitory town for Edinburgh, parts of which are under 20 mins away. Regardless of the closeness of large stores such as Sainsbury's and also Costco, the main street, Clerk Street, is busy with web traffic and also local customers. A big, modern industrial estate with around 100 different concerns supplies a variety of jobs for regional citizens. Services include MacSweens haggis factory, and also Police Scotland's Communications Centre (The Force Communications Centre, or FCC) where all radio website traffic and also emergency situation telephone calls are handled. The Pentlands industrial estate was opened in the 1970s, and also a variety of retail and other businesses trade from the perimeter of the town. These were from the similarity Gregg's to the a lot more industrial business concentrating on welding and also steel construction.