[4][5] An experimental farm was set up near Milton Bridge in 1924 by the East Scotland College of Agriculture.
The old Glencorse Kirk, located in the grounds of Glencorse House, and local pub the Fishers Tryst are the setting for Robert Louis Stevenson's, (author of Treasure Island), short story "The Body Snatchers", written in 1881 and premiered in The Pall Mall Gazette in 1884.
During this time Stevenson was travelling between Scotland and England and frequented the inn which was built in 1824 and torn down in 1954.
The rebuilt pub remains and is the main social gathering place in Milton Bridge.
Joseph Bell FRCSE ( 1837 1911) was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh.