Archibald Primrose was created Viscount Primrose in 1700 and Earl of Rosebery in 1703. The family found Barnbougle unsuitable and in1817 built the Tudor Gothic Dalmeny House. Here the 5th Earl of Rosebery and Liberal British Prime Minister held many political parties.
Within the planned village of Dalmeny is its famous 12th century church.
One of the best preserved Norman churches in Scotland it retains the familiar Romanesque arched door and windows.
There are many fine old memorials in the graveyard depicting mortality and the last resting place of
John Hill Burton (1809-1881) Historiographer Royal and biographer of David Hume.
In the mid 19th and early 20th centuries Dalmeny had numerous shale mines and the red bings were a familiar site from the roadside. The census returns and local newspapers refer to the increasing population of miners and builders with the associated fatalities in the mines and during the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge.A short walk through the parish is rewarded with a visit to the Cramond Brig restaurant.