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- The name Morningside first appeared on Richard Cooper 's 1759 Plan of the City of Edinburgh and Adjacent Grounds.
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History of the Area. The recorded history of Morningside village stretches back to 1586, the year in which the Burgh Muir, or Boroughmuir, was feued. Notes made by City Engineer W.G. Park in the Edinburgh Corporation’s History and Derivation of Edinburgh Street Names, published to coincide with the winding up of the Corporation on 15 May 1975 ...
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. The original village served several farms and estates in the area.
Sep 5, 2023 · Morningside Station. Passengers leaving the busy platform at Morningside Station, Edinburgh in 1961. Photo: Unknown
- Gary Flockhart
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Jan 22, 2021 · The village of Morningside gradually developed on this land. Morningside was first mentioned in one of the works of Richard Cooper, an 18th-century English engraver. The Scottish novelist James Grant had also described the village in one of his writings in 1882.
Morningside was a small village south of Edinburgh which consisted of a few cottages and farms. Originally part of the Burghmuir (a woodland and open ground where hunting took place) which stretched from the Pentland hills to the Meadows which was the Burgh Loch.
The recorded history of Morningside village stretches back to 1586, the year in which the Burgh Muir, or Boroughmuir, was feued.
Sep 12, 2023 · The name originates with a large private estate property which used to occupy this land, built in 1780 and later acquired by a wealthy merchant of the East India Company named Alexander Falconer.
