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EDINBURGH (surveyed in 1893-4)
Edinburgh is situated on a series of low hills some two miles south of the Firth of Forth, by the east coast of Scotland.
Edinburgh means ‘fort of the rock face’ from eideann a Scottish Gaelic corruption of the word aodann meaning ‘rock face’ and the Old English word burh meaning ‘stronghold’. The word burh was a substitution for the original Scottish Gaelic word dun meaning a stronghold or fort; the Gaelic name for the city being Dun Eideann. for more click here
