 Burgh Muir

The Burgh Muir is the historic term for an extensive area of land lying to the south of Edinburgh city centre, upon which much of the southern part of the city now stands following its gradual spread and more especially its rapid expansion in the late 18th and 19th centuries.The name has been retained today in the partly anglicised form "Boroughmuir" for a much smaller district within Bruntsfield, vaguely defined by the presence of "Boroughmuir High School", and, until 2010, "Boroughmuirhead Post Office" in its north-west corner.