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Edinburgh Travel Essentials

Ghost & History Walks to explore the Old Town and Underground Vaults. Dramatised or realistic, from £7.50. Walking Tours

Beautiful Photos from Edinburgh

Photograph of Balmoral Hotel and Edinburgh Castle at dusk, from Calton Hill. Photo #G3917

View of Edinburgh Castle and many Old Town landmarks (Tolbooth, Camera Obscura, Ramsay Gardens, etc) with the distinctive Calton Hill cannon in the foreground. Photo #G3906

Image of the statue of Sir Walter Scott, part of the Scott Monument. Photo #F0199

Origin of 'Edinburgh'

Tourists have problems with the name of Edinburgh. There are hundreds of ways people write it and the most common writings include 'edinburg', 'edinborough', 'edimburgh', 'edinbourgh', 'ediburgh', 'edinbugh', 'edinboro', 'edingburgh', 'edinbrugh', 'edimburg', 'edinburugh', 'edingurgh', 'edinbrough', etc.

According to the Scottish Place Names dictionary, the name Edinburgh means 'Fort of the Rock Face'. The 'edin' part comes from Scottish Gaelic and means 'rock face', while 'burgh' comes from Old English meaning stronghold.

Some more obscure (and quite funny) ways of writing Edinburgh include: edinburough, edingburg, edinbourg, edinburh, edinurgh, edenburg, edinbough, edinbourough, edinbrgh, edingborough, edenburgh, edinberg, edinborgh, edinborugh, edinburge, edinburhg, edingbourgh, etc.

Edinburgh is spelt Edimburgo in Spanish and Italian and Édimbourg in French.

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