In the Victorian period industrial development followed along with large scale tenement construction, new road layouts and the addition of railway infrastructure, all of which came to occupy the former fields.

The marriage was said to be unhappy (although it gave children including Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange) and Margaret took her husband to court for aliment.

She was awarded 1,700 merks by Sir George Lockhart of Carnwath, the Lord President of the Court of Session.

[11] Chiesley made no attempt to escape and confessed at his trial, held before the Lord Provost the next day.

[12] According to Robert Chambers writing in 1824, "The body was stolen from the gallows, as was supposed, by his friends, and it was never known what had become of it, till more than a century after, when, in removing the hearth-stone of a cottage in Dalry Park, near Edinburgh, a human skeleton was found, with the remains of a pistol near the situation of the neck.

[15] In 1870 the house was sold to the Scottish Episcopal Church and from the late 19th century to about 1960 it was used as a teacher training college and by the Edinburgh & Leith Old People's Welfare Committee for social activities, classes and a lunch club until closed down in 2002.

Four of the streets are named after politicians, prominent in the Anti-Corn Law League; Richard Cobden, Duncan McLaren, John Bright and Samuel Walker.

[17] The colonies in Dalry were built between 1868 and 1870 by the Edinburgh Cooperative Building Company Limited, primarily to house Caledonian Railway workers.

[17] The growth of industrial buildings, in proximity to the railway development of the time created new jobs in Dalry.

These included employment with the railways themselves, as well as at the Fountain Brewery, the Caledonian Distillery, the North British Rubber Company's Castle Mill (1856) and the Grove Street Biscuit Factory (1868).

[18] This led to a surge in requirements for new residential development, leading to a significant boom in tenement housing building in the late 19th century mainly by the Scottish businessman and baronet Sir James Steel.

[22] The north east of Dalry has seen major development including a former railway depot at Haymarket, which lay predominantly empty since its closure in the 1960s.

Construction of a new £200m retail, hotel and office development commenced in 2013 with work to reinforce the active rail tunnels under the site, which run east from Haymarket station to Edinburgh Waverley.

[25] The site is now occupied by 20 acres of private residential housing in an estate named Dalry Gait.

[27] A series of railway works, the 'Dalry Road Depot' also existed to the east of Dalry, including a goods yard and several engine sheds.

[29] The line is now closed and removed; a small section of the platform is visible on a park path near Orwell Terrace.

St Martin of Tours Episcopal Church, constructed in 1883 is located on Dalry Road and is still used for services.

It is run jointly by a local charity, the St Bride's association and also by the City of Edinburgh Council.

[37] The Dalry Congregational Church, on Caledonian Road, was constructed in 1872 by Alexander Heron and has been converted into accommodation as flats.

[41] A second area of parkland occupies part of the former railway goods yard and borders the West Approach Road.

[42] It represented part of the second wave of cemetery building in the city, specifically serving the south-west sections.

[42] The lodge house post-dates the main construction and was added in 1873, to a design by the firm of Peddie and Kinnear.

[44] The lane is bounded by high walls on both sides and has been used as a murder location in several fiction books including the Rebus novel Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin.