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TANFIELD	From Tanyard once there.
TANTALLON PLACE	On the estate of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of the Lauders of the Bass. Alan de Lawedre was Keeper of Tantallon Castle, circa 1370, St. G. 165.
TARVIT STREET	Littlejohn, App. 42. Seems to be Tamiet St., Drumdryan, D.1855/6.
TAY STREET	Compliment to the river.
TAYLOR GARDENS	From Wm. Taylor, chairman of Parish Council etc., partner in Messrs. Jas. Miller & Son, Leith. Built on his land, jr.
TEMPLE PARK CRESCENT	From the Temple, whose ruins appear N.W. of Merchiston Castle, among trees, Kirkwood. Ord. Surv. 1852.
TENNANT STREET	Tennant Engineer, Bowershall Works. Drowned in the "London", circa 1860, j.r., on his way to Australia, on business.
TEVIOT PLACE ROW	From Mount Teviot, seat of the Marquis of Lothian, uncle to the last Lord Ross of Ross Park, who died at Mount Teviot, o.& n.e. ii. 339. p.w. 1780/81, 14, eec.js. 30/11/1774.
TEVIOTDALE PLACE	Fancy, from the Teviot hills, e.c.b.cld.
THIRLESTANE LANE ROAD	On Warrender property. Sir George Warrender's mother was daughter to the Earl of Lauderdale, whose seat is Thirlestane Castle.
THISTLE COURT STREET LANE	Complimentary to the Scottish national flower, (compare Rose St.) 1784. The name was fixed, for the whole length of the street, as for Rose St., by act of Town Council 2/7/1785, eec.js. The east most block named, Ainslie 1780. In Ainslie 1804 Hill St. and Young St. appear as now. Thistle Court, consisting of 4 houses, m.t.c. 25/6/1777.
THISTLE PLACE	Compliment to the national flower of Scotland.
THOMSON'S COURT	Abbeyhill. Abbey strand, D. 1827. Gavin Thomson, writer: inter alia Thomson's Cl., v.r. 33. Thomson's Cl. within precincts of Abbey of Holyrood House, from Gavin T., surgeon, R.N., Can. Chart. 26/8/1806. From Adam T., brewer, bailie of the Canongate, Can. Chart 16/3/1888. Two are shown, Ord. Survey connected by close.
THOMSON'S COURT	66 Grassmarket, D. 1827. Mrs. Wm. Thomson, merchant. John Thomson, corn merchant, David Thomson, all at 66 Grassmarket, D.1827. Evidently from the family. Named Carmichael's Cl., Ainslie 1780-1804.
THORNTREE STREET	From the tree which grew at the north end of the row of hinds' cottages, of the form of Lower Quarry holes: farm house still standing 1921, west side of Easter Road, jr., Ainslie 1804. Act anent repairing of the highway leading from the Watergate to the thorn tree south side of Leith Links, m.t.c. 13/10/1686. The thorntree near Leith, m.t.c. 15/4/1718. Report on highway betwixt the thorne at Leith ' Links and the Abbeyhill. The saurer to see the laying of Calsay betwixt the Abayhill and the thome: to consult Sir Wm. Purves who is concerned in a part of the ground, also Sir Wm. Bruce as to how to do it best and save expense to the town, m.t.c. 2/4/1673. Dwelling house and ground lately built by jm. Paterson, mt. tasks man of Leith Links, at S.W. end of said Links at highway leading from Leith to the thorn tree which is at the end of the highway leading to the Abbey of Holyrood house.
THORNVILLE TERRACE	After the thorn tree, fancy, e.c.b.c.1d.
THORNYBAUK	D. 1827. Ainslie 1804. o.& n.e. ii. 218. "A ridge covered with thorns, long unploughed and untouched", m.t.c. 15/12/1824. Property bounded by a Thorn hedge, near Tollcross, Reg. 23/3/1860. There was a "briery baulk" at Dishinglfat-evidently descriptive, Can. Chart. 27/12/1809. Shown in Knox' map of 1824. Robert Stivenson, tenant in Orchardfield, and Marion Aitkman, relict of Robt. Brown, tenant, in Coatts, got authority to remove fuilyie and dung from the avenues leading from the West End of Portsburgh to the Thornbalk, including all the mid-way and the north way, m.t.c. 19/3/1718. North way seems to be the Linlithgow Road, and the mid-way the Glasgow Road, and the other avenue, the Twopenny Custom, as in Ainslie 1804. The Thornybank is shown, unnamed, by Brown and Watson 1793; Semple St. seems to be the northern part of it between Linlithgow Road and Glasgow Road. The Town owned itself responsible for the road from the end of the West Port the length of the Brierie balk near Tolcross, leading to Wright's houses, m.t.c. 3/1/1750. Offer of Trustees on Corstorphine road to pay half cost of repairing piece of road leading towards the Coltbridge from Ronalds to the Briery Baulk or east end of Castlebarns, m.t.c. 23/6/1756. Thomhedge at Tollcross, Reg. 75, 23/3/1860. John Spence, Son of John S., cowfeeder and portionff of Thoneback, (sic) at Fountainbridge near Edinburgh, p. to Wm. Gibson, plumber 18/2/1812. Adam Paterson, son of Adam P., cowfeeder, Thornybauk, Fountainbridge, p. to John Spence, plumber, born 12/6/1821 as from 1/5/1821. John Spence, plumber, Spence's Pl., D.182718. Thornybauk, Fountainbridge, D.1827/8. Charter to John & George Spence, resident (No. 7) in Thornybauk, of ground in Duncan St. Bought for Port Hopetoun Union Property Co., m.t.c. 15/12/1824.
TIMBER BUSH	6 Shore and 41 Bernard St., D. 1827. "Bush" is the corrupt form of "Bourse". Originally the open piazza in the lower storey of an ancient building adjoining Queen St. Chapel, where the merchants and traders met for business-the Bourse, or Exchange. Later the whole ground was used as a timber market-whence its name. It was known also as the "Timber Howff", Calderwood, Sept. 1616, or "Timber Holf", o.& n.e. iii. 231. Situated in Paunch Market, now Queen St., t.t.l. 39. See Common Closes. The name is used as equivalent to Timber Yard; by order of the Town Council, no Timber Bushes were allowed on any part of Princes' St. or the pleasure grounds there, m.t.c. 16/8/1780. "Timber hoof", m.t.c. 12/2/1794, 1/6/1831. "Locus lignarius", Prot. A.W.3, 23/5/1710. Timber house, Prot. 24/8/1705, A. W.2. The councils "timber house in the halfe of Leith", m.t.c. 23/10/1635. See. Vol 3, p.24.
TINTO PLACE	Note written by other than Boog-Watson:- Irrelevant allusion to Tinto Hill.
TIPPERLINN ROAD	From the village of Tipperlinn (well of the Cascade?), which existed before 1586. Tipperlin Loan is mentioned in report on riding the Marches 1701. In 1770 Dr. Thomas Steel of Burghmuirhead, (See Steel's Place) established the Tipperlinn Chemical Works. In 1809, the Edinburg Lunatic Asylum was founded, and in 1853 the site of the Chemical Works was purchased from Isabella Steel, relict of Walter, Oliphant, for the extension of the Asylum, o.e.c. x. 206 207, 209, 210. a.o.e. 130. Tipperlinn, Boroughmulrhead, D.1827. James Steele, chimist. Burrow-muir-head, D.1827,240. Road between Merchiston Tipperlin, Prot. 18/10/1727 A. W.8. Alexr. Napier of Tipperlyne, m.t.c. 6/1/1569-70.
TOBAGO STREET	Castlebarns, D.1827. AlsoTobago Place, Ainslie1804. Lothian Map 1825. Tobago St. so named before 9/4/1792, eec.j.s. m.t.c. 21/7/1810. From Nathaniel Donaldson, "of the Island of Tobago", who conveyed property to Wm. Morrison, writer, 1788-90. See Morrison St.
TOLBOOTH WYND	15 Canongate, D.1827. Entered through archway or pend at the base of the tower of the Tolbooth, leading to the N.B. Canongate, Ainslie 1780, 1804. Prot. 31/3/1679. See also Old Tolbooth Wynd-Part II.
TOLBOOTH WYND	Leith. North end of Kirkgate to upper drawbridge, D. 1827. From the Tolbooth, built under Queen Mary 1563-1565: demolished 1819, despite the pleadings of Sir Walter Scott and others, o.& n.e. iii. 228, 230.
TOLLCROSS	Foot of Lauriston, D.1827. D.1800, 172, 219. The name is found in Charter of Lands of High Riggs, dated 1458, w.c. In the map in Kincaid's History of Edinburgh, 1787, the name is given to the street known later as Cowfeeder Row-, and now High Riggs. Lothian map 1825 shows it. The old Toll-cross, in front of Valleyfield House, o.& n.e. iii. 30. "Tow-cros" mentioned 1669, o.& n.e. iii. 42. "Lands of Tolcross". Charter of Charles 11, 4/4/1649, r.c.g. 9(30). South parts of Tollcross owned by Major James Weir, 1814, v.r.42. "That part of the village of Portsburgh called Tollcross", m.t.c. 14/6/1836. Tollcross, near Edinburgh, Prot. 26/6/1764, G.I.2. Herigs and Tollcroce, m.t.c. 20/10/1697. Tollcroce, m.t.c. 20/10/1697.
TOWER PLACE STREET	From the old signal tower at the N.E. come thereof originally, Maitland 496 c.2. a windmill for making rope-oil, o.& n.e. iii. 245.
TRAFALGAR LANE STREET	From Nelson's last and greatest victory over the French fleet.
TRINITY CRESCENT ROAD	South-west of Newhaven, D.1827. From the Trinity House, a seamen's Hospital, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, 1555, erected by the shipmasters and mariners, from the "primo glit " dues, levied on all vessels entering the port. It stood on the Western side of the Kirkgate, where the present Trinity House, built 1817, now stands, Irons, 1. 303. o.& n.e. iii. 223. e.s.s. 275. Superior of the lands. The mariners' guilds in sea ports dedicated the Hospital to the Holy Trinity. The Masters and Mariners invested much of their funds in land in Trinity, which takes its name from the Incorporation, j.r.s. L 130. See also Trinity Court-Part II.
TRON SQUARE	From the neighbouring Tron Kirk, (opened 1647-finished 1663).
TRUNK'S CLOSE	Bryson's Close, Reg. 29/10/1860; Prot. A.W.2, 9/1/1705. Stirling's Close, Reg. 29/10/1860; Prot. A. W.2, 9/1/1705. Purvis Close, Prot. G.H. 10, 28/1/1734; 19/2/1734. Edgar. Ainslie 1780. Kirkwood. Kerr. Formerly Touring's, thereafter Bryson's, now Trunk Close, Prot. W.F.5, 12/4/1753, owing its name to the Aberdeenshire family of Turing of Foveran, one of whom, James, had his town house in the close, Prot. 26/6/1529, 6/9/1529. A tenement on the north side of the High Street, having the tenement of John Aikman on the west and that of Andrew Moubray on the east, opposite the Fountain Well, was owned by Walter Turing, his heirs and successors, Prot. J.W. 7, 11/12/1764. Its alias, Stirling's Close, was derived from the tenement acquired from John Forman by Mr. Wm. Stirling, Prot. A.W.3, 22/8/1710; A. W.4, 24/1/1712. Andrew Bryson of Craigtoun rebuilt a tenement in the close; he was son of Wm. Bryson, merchant, burgess, by Christian Orr, and father of Alexander and Christian by Agnes Scott. His sister Mary married Mr. Alexr. Bailie, writer; another sister, Margaret, married Foullis, and had a son, Alexander Foullis of Ratho. Walter Ewing, W.S., married another Mary Bryson. Hence the name of the close, Reg. 29/10/1860; Prot. A. W.2, 9/1/1705. It seems-the alias is not given-to have been called Purvis' Close, which was on the north side of the High Street, above the Netherbow, Prot. G.H. 10, 28/1/1734; 19/2/1734, and seems to take the name from the tenement in Bryson's Close owned in succession by John Purvis, John Forman, Wm. Stirling, Andrew Handyside, and Mr. Andrew Bryson,Prot. G.H. 10, 28/1/1734; 19/2/1734.
TWEEDDALE COURT	Kerr. Marquess of Tweeddale's Close, Edgar. Kirkwood. Tweedale's Close, Ainslie. Alexr. Young's Close, later James Brown's Close, Prot. W.I.4, 11/5/1750. John laing's Close, Prot. W.I,.4, 11/5/1750. So called from the town mansion of the family of Hay, Marquis of Tweeddale, Wilson, ii. 71; o.& n. e. 1. 278. Edgar shows the 'Marquis of Twedale's garden'. The first of the family who lived there was John, 2nd Earl of Tweeddale, died 1697, to whom it was bequeathed by his grandmother, Margaret Ker, the famous Lady Yester, and the last, William Henry, the 4th Marquis, died 1775. An older name was John Laing's Close, John Laing's Close, now the Marquis of Tweedal's: Prot. W.F.4, 11/5/1750, derived from Mr. John Laing, Keeper of the Signet, successor to the late Neil Laing, writer, builder of the great tenement acquired later by Sir Wm. Bruce of Balcaskie, architect of Holyrood Palace and first designer of the North Bridge, o.& n.e. 1. 336, 11. 74, Kt., Clerk of Session, and his wife Dame Mary Halket; and from them by John, Marquis of Tweeddale. A tenement stood on the south side of the High Street, beside the Netherbow, having the land of the late Neil Layng, writer, now of Mr. John Layng, on the east and south, c.c. 3043, 23/2/1589-90. Robert Lang or Laing, merchant in Glasgow, owned property at the head of Tweeddale's Close, Prot. W.F. 1, 9/3/1745. It was also called Alexr. Young's, Prot. W.P.4, 11/5/1750, Close, later James Brown 's Close, but of them we know nothing.
TYNECASTLE LANE PLACE TERRACE	From ancient toll of that name, o.& n.e. ii. 218. Kirkwood. Tynecastle, part of the estate of Merchiston, feued by the late John Alison from governors of George Watson's Hospital, who built house, circa 1793, eec.j.s. 30 June 1801. Mentioned in v.r. 41. Tynecastle Toll, m.t.c. 17/7/1816, 14/1/1834. Possibly derived by gaelic Tigh-na-caistel, or Tigh-an-chaisteil, meaning the castle near that place.