Pilrig

The Pilrig area from the Calton Hill
Pilrig House
Pilrig Church
Georgian houses on Pilrig Street
Cambridge Avenue, Edinburgh
Pilrig manse, Edinburgh

Pilrig is an area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. The name probably derives from the long field (rig) on which a peel tower (pil/peel) stood.[1][2] There is evidence of a peel tower situated on an area of higher ground above the Water of Leith.

Pilrig lies midway between Leith and Edinburgh, west of Leith Walk.

It is split by Pilrig Street, which marks the division between the EH6 and EH7 postcode districts (also the old division between Edinburgh and Leith hence the name of the bar opposite being originally the Boundary Bar, then City Limits and now known simply as "the Boundary").

Along the north-east side of Pilrig Street lies Pilrig Park, within which is Pilrig House, the heart of the former estate of the Balfour family.

The 19th-century Rosebank Cemetery is located at the west end of Pilrig Street, at the junction of Broughton Road.

  1. ^ "The Derivation of Edinburgh's Street Names". Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  2. ^ Dixon, Norman. "The Placenames of Midlothian" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2012.