Portsburgh

Portsburgh

Portsburgh [cite book |title='Portree - Pulteney Town', A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
year=1846|publisher= |accessdate=2008-05-17 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43472 |pages= 388-396
] [ [http://www.nls.uk/maps/early/towns.cfm?id=1022 Map of Edinburgh, 1582 imprint] ] was a burgh of barony 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. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10361643 Portsburgh Burgh Edinburgh through time | Administrative history of Scottish Burgh: hierarchies, boundaries] ]

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