Portsburgh

{{Short description|Burgh of barony in Edinburgh, Scotland}}

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Portsburgh{{cite book |title='Portree - Pulteney Town', A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland |

year=1846|access-date=2008-05-17 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43472 |pages= 388–396}}[https://archive.today/20120911090138/http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/towns.cfm?id=1022 Map of Edinburgh, 1582 imprint] was a burgh of barony comprising two discontiguous areas, Wester Portsburgh and Easter Portsburgh, outside the city walls of Edinburgh, Scotland from 1649[http://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?action=fetch_chunk_frame&fn=charlesii_trans&id=id16183&query=&type=trans&variants=&fragment=t1661_1_143_d6_trans Parliamentary register of Portsburgh being declared a burgh in 1649] to 1856,[https://archive.today/20121224100353/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10361643 Portsburgh Burgh Edinburgh through time | Administrative history of Scottish Burgh: hierarchies, boundaries] taking its name from their respective town gates, the West Port and Bristo Port. It extended from Lochrin in the west to Drummond Street in the east, and from King's Stables Road in the north to the Meadows in the south.{{ cite web | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43472#s2 | title=Portree - Pulteney Town {{!}} British History Online | access-date=2009-09-13 }} The name survives in Portsburgh Square off the West Port.