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The burgh of Portsburgh and its absorbtion into Edinburgh
Western Portsburgh is now known as the West Port, and runs from Main Point (junction of Bread Street, Lauriston Street etc) down to the Grassmarket.

Western Portsburgh was the main street through the burgh of Portsburgh


 * Portsburgh was a burgh of barony from 1649 to 1856 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10361643
 * Parliamentary register of it being declared a burgh in 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
 * Borders of Eastern and Western Portsburgh, at 1846: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43472
 * West Port was the only westwards exit from the city when the city wall stood (http://www.electricscotland.com/history/edinburgh/chap9.htm)

Historic events / trivia

 * "In 1650, when an English invasion was expected, many houses in Potterrow, as well as the West Port, were demolished by order of the magistrates, that the guns of the castle, and those on the city wall might have free action to play upon the enemy" http://www.oldandnewedinburgh.co.uk/volume4/page150.html
 * Robert The Bruce came into the city via the West Port: http://www.helium.com/items/256077-buying-grass-edinburghfar-below
 * James Hogg says in Confessions of a Justified Sinner that he had lodgings in Portsburgh http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext00/pmfjs10.htm
 * Porteous riots started with a mob at Portsburgh: http://www.wardsbookofdays.com/14april.htm
 * West Port murders

Current info / recent history

 * Portsburgh Church (recently the Salvation Army Women's Hostel) to be put on a buildings at risk register: http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Trust-targets-six-derelict-properties.3814684.jp
 * Collapse of building in West Port: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6696217.stm
 * New building to be constructed on the corner of Lady Lawson Street and West Port, called Westport 102 http://business.scotsman.com/industry/-New-vision-for-post.4050565.jp
 * Should it be noted that many (most people I am aquainted with) regard it not as "Edinburgh's Soho" but as the "pubic triangle"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.235.245.183 (talk) 15:51, 24 September 2012 (UTC)