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  1. Morningside is a district and former village in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies alongside the main arterial Morningside Road, part of an ancient route from Edinburgh to the south west of Scotland. Map. Directions.

  2. Morningside is located approximately 1.6 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of Edinburgh's city centre. It is bordered by Bruntsfield to the north, the Grange to the north east, Blackford to the east, Comiston to the south, Greenbank to the south west, and Merchiston to the north west.

    • Some Morningside Characters
    • James Ferrier and His Daughter Susan
    • The Falconars of Falcon Hall
    • Two Balfour Aunts

    The story of the community that Morningside became over the course of the 19thcentury is rooted in its initial attractions as a peaceful, secluded and affordable alternative to the overcrowded resorts of Cramond and Portobello. In her autobiography, published posthumously in 1875, Eliza Fletcher describes how in 1799 she and her advocate husband de...

    The Fletchers may have been influenced in their choice of Morningside by recently-widowed James Ferrier, WS and Principal Clerk of Session, who had spent the summer of 1798 at Canaan Cottage with his 15-year old daughter Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. The following year, James took out a lease on East Morningside House, spending up to six months of each...

    Alexander Falconar had returned to Scotland from India, where he had been in the colonial service in Madras, in around 1810 with his wife Elizabeth and 12 of their 14 surviving children – three sons and nine daughters – settling in Edinburgh the following year. On 17 February 1814 he bought Morningside Lodge from Margaret Thomson Coulter; she was t...

    Two doors along from Dr Chalmers, at 6 Morningside Place, lived the Balfour aunts visited by their nephew Robert Louis Stevenson in the mid-1800s. His childhood nanny, Alison Cunningham – better known as ‘Cummy’ lived her last years in Balcarres Street and is buried in Morningside Cemetery.

  3. Sep 5, 2023 · Morningside is now a local government ward with a population of around 33,000 people living in a mixture of villas, tenement flats and more modern housing – all centred around the main shopping...

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  4. If you’re looking to explore some of the best that Edinburgh has to offer, then you can’t go wrong with Bruntsfield and Morningside. These two neighbourhoods are packed with local attractions, making them a must-visit when you are in Edinburgh.

  5. The Morningside Heritage Association is the local history society for the Morningside area of Edinburgh. It exists to stimulate and promote interest in the history of the area and to further the study of this history.

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  7. Sep 12, 2023 · Morningside is one such suburb, running along one of the main arterial roads into and out of Edinburgh to the south-west of the city centre.

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