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| PAISLEY AVENUE CRESCENT DRIVE GARDENS GROVE TERRACE |
11.4.29 6.1.271 1.4.29 26.4.34 1.5.60 26.4.34 |
Paisley Drive was formerly called Meadowfield Farm Road. These Streets were constructed on the estate of the Duke of Abercorn who made application for order to construct Paisley Avenue and Drive in 1929. James VI in acknowledgement of his loyalty to the Stewarts conferred on Lord Claud Hamilton, youngest son of the Earl of Arran, the Barony of Paisley. Later in 1603 the Abercorn title was conferred on his son. |
| PARK CRESCENT GARDENS GROVE |
11.9.25 11.9.25 11.9.25 |
Officially named Kirk Crescent, Gardens, and Grove but owing to objections by new residents this decision was rescinded and the streets named "Park" because this area of ground had previously been known as Park Gardens for 30 years. The name if obviously associated with the former Parkland of Mount Vernon House adjacent now Mount Vernon Cemetery. |
| PARKER AVENUE ROAD TERRACE |
27.2.36 27.2.36 27.2.36 |
A Mr. Parker was one of the trustees of the Craigentinny estate in 1936 on which these streets were constructed. |
| PARKGROVE AVENUE BANK CRESCENT DRIVE GARDENS GREEN LOAN NEUK PATH PLACE ROAD ROW STREET TERRACE VIEW |
21.6.34 13.7.61 22.9.38 21.6.34 21.9.39 13.7.61 21.9.39 18.1.62 1959 17.7.52 19.8.37 13.7.61 26.2.53 21.9.39 13.7.61 |
The application for street order of 1934 for Parkgrove Avenue and Drive was made by Eastern Counties Properties Limited and described the streets as "at Parkneuk" which was a nursery and house at the junction of Parkgrove Drive and Drum Brae North. Probably developers preferred name "Parkgrove" to "Parkneuk". Name is associated with Barnton Park opposite (the open park land prior to house construction there). |
| PARKHEAD AVENUE CRESCENT DRIVE GARDENS GROVE LOAN PLACE STREET TERRACE VIEW |
27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 27.10.36 |
Parkhead Farm was situated to the south of Calder Road and just west of where Parkhead Gardens is today. The streets were constructed on the former farmland. |
| PATIE'S ROAD | 28.10.36 | Patie's Road was constructed on the line of an older road called Pattie's Loan which was an access from the south to Katesmill and Redhall Mill. Origin of "Patie's" is not known. |
| PEARCE AVENUE GROVE ROAD |
23.10.30 10.3.66 23.10.30 |
Application for street order to construct streets Pearce Road and Avenue was made by Edward Pearce, builder, (died in 1947 aged 86). |
| PEATVILLE GARDENS TERRACE |
23.2.56 28.11.35 |
Application was made to construct the street Peatville Terrace in 1935 by R. Peat, Builder, of Kinnauld, Currie and obviously the street was named after him. |
| PEFFER BANK PLACE STREET |
- 17.11.66 15.7.65 |
Peffer Place formerly Mitchell Street renamed with effect from 15.5.67 because of duplication. Peffer Street formerly Station Road renamed with effect from l.3.66 because of duplication. Named from Peffermill Road. |
| PEFFERMILL ROAD | - | Named from Peffer Mill House with mill adjacent on the Braid Burn. In Scoto-Saxon the name means "The Mill on the dark muddy stream". Peffermill House is where the "Laird of Dumbiedykes" lived in Sir Walter Scott's "Heart of Midlothian". |
| PEGGY'S MILL ROAD | 11.4.30 | Previously an un-named road leading to Peggy's Mill officially named on this date. |
| PEMBROKE PLACE | - | The theme used for naming streets in this area was names of counties or noted residences. Compare Devon, Surrey, Sutherland, and Elgin. |
| PENNYWELL COURT GARDENS GROVE MEDWAY PATH PLACE ROAD VILLAS |
29.5.69 25.10.45 25.10.45 25.10.45 25.10.45 14.3.63 - - |
Named from Pennywell Cottages formerly called simply "Pennywell" still in existence at the junction of West Granton Road and Marine Drive. In former days pit ponies from Orkney and Shetland were unloaded at Granton. Drovers from the mining areas around Glasgow drove the ponies from Granton and the first spot which they could water the ponies was at the well at Pennywell for which they paid the sum of one penny. |
| PENTLAND AVENUE ROAD Colinton |
- - |
Evident, from a view of the Pentland Hills. |
| PENTLAND CRESCENT DRIVE GARDENS GROVE VIEW Comiston |
18.10.34 28.1.65 18.10.34 18.10.34 18.10.34 |
As aboveSee also Pentland - Part I |
| PERTH STREET | Possibly a name derived from the Earl of Moray's estate in Perthshire. Compare Doune Terrace from Doune also on his Perth estate. The street was constructed shortly after 1825. | |
| PEVERVILTERRACE | 26.6.52 | Corporation Inch Housing. Names taken from Sir Walter Scott's novels- See also Ashton Grove. |
| PIERSHILL LANE SQUARE E SQUARE W |
26.1.67 14.4.38 14.4.38 |
Piershill Lane formerly Ramsay Lane renamed with effect from 1.8.67 because of duplication. Historians say that the name "Piershill" derives from Col Piers who is reputed to have occupied a villa on high ground overlooking Restalrig, north of Jocks Lodge known as Piershill House (Piershill barracks, built 1793 occupied the site of Piershill Squares E and W). However, no Col. Piers can be traced and it is known that the land was a heritable subject as far back as the 16th century. Reference is made to the "lands of Piershill" in a feu charter dated 20 August 1580. This, therefore, casts doubts about Co. Piers' existence. See also Piershill, Pursfield - Part I |
| PILRIG GARDENS AVENUE |
19.4.34 27.4.33 |
Name derives from Pilrig House on cast side of Pilrig Street near Bonnington Road the grounds of which have become Pilrig Public Park. Formerly known as Peilrig and Pellryge named from the ridge (rig) where in the 15th century the Peel Tower stood (Peel rig). See also Pilrig - Part I |
| PILTON AVENUE CRESCENT DRIVE DRIVE N GARDENS LOAN PARK PLACE |
27.4.33 27.4.33 27.4.33 - 27.4.33 26.4.33 27.4.33 27.4.33 |
Named from East Pilton Farm. The mansion house in the Barony of Piltoun was accidentally burnt down on 8th February 1749. The buildings of East Pilton Farm were located just to the west of Pilton Drive and just to the north of the Northern General Hospital. |
| PIRNIEFIELD BANK GARDENS GROVE TERRACE |
26.8.54 29.4.37 29.4.37 15.12.32 |
Pirniefield Place existed as an access to Pirniefield House. Pirniefield House, of no historical significance, is now divided into 47 Laurel Bank and 49 Pirniefield Place. See also Pirniefield - Part I |
| PITLOCHRY PLACE | - | Built by the Edinburgh Co-op Building Co. Limited and this is probably another of the fanciful names chosen for naming their streets. Compare Earlston Place adjacent. |
| PITTVILLE STREET | 21.10.65 | Formerly Pitt Street renamed with effect from 4.5.66, because of duplication. Side name "Pittville" also renamed and renumbered. There existed a house in Pitt Street called "Pittville". On 6.9.29 the appropriate committee approved the side-name 'Pittville' for No.s 1-7. The name is derived from Wigliam Pitt, Prime Minister in 1783. |
| PLEYDELL PLACE | 26. 6.52 | Corporation Inch Housing. Names taken from novels of Sir Walter Scott - See also Ashton Grove. |
| POLWARTH CRESCENT GARDENS GROVE PARK PLACE TERRACE |
- - - 29.11.34 - - |
A note exists in the Boog-Watson notes written by other than Boog-Watson "A compliment to Lord Polwarth". Proof of this statement lies in the adjacent streets "Harden" and "Mertoun" both seats of Lord Polwarth. |
| PORTGOWER PLACE | - | Portgower is a village near Helmsdale Sutherland and no reason can be found for this street being named thus. |
| PORTLAND STREET | 15.7.65 | Formerly Albany Street renamed with effect from 1.3.66 because of duplication. Named from the former Portland Place and Terrace which existed as side-names to Lindsay Road. Said to be named after the Duke of Portland, P.M. in 1807. However as the original Portland Place and Terrace were constructed a number of years after 1807 the name "Portland" may have simply been a made up name from the Port of Leith. |
| PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET ROAD |
14.9.67 - |
Formerly High Street, renamed with effect from 1.3.68 because of duplication. Formerly a barren waste called the Figgate Whins or Lands of Figgate ("Figgate" - Saxon for "a common pasture for cattle"). A sailor returned from his ship in a fleet which in 1739 bombarded and captured the important Spanish town of Puerto Bello. He built a house on the lands of Figgate and called it Portobello House, said to be where the Town Hall now is. |
| PRESTONFIELD AVENUE CRESCENT GARDENS ROAD TERRACE |
30.9.27 30.9.27 30.9.27 30.927 30.9.27 |
Prestonfield Avenue formerly Hamner Road and Prestonfield Gardens formerly Ahston Road presumably renamed - so that all streets in the new scheme should bear the same name. Named from Prestonfield House; a former owner was Sir James Dick who purchased the lands of Priestfield along with lands purchased from the Prestons of Craigmillar, when the area then became known as Prestonfield. |
| PRIESTFIELD AVENUE CRESCENT GARDENS GROVE ROAD N |
20.12.24 18.2.32 8.10.64 18.2.32 28.6.29 |
From the lands of Priestfield mentioned as far back as 1376. See also above.See also Priestfield - Part I |
| PROMENADE | - | Obvious, Portobello promenade. |
| PROSPECT BANK CRESCENT GARDENS GROVE PLACE TERRACE |
25.10.29 28.2.35 28.2.35 25.2.32 25.2.32 |
Named from Prospect Bank Road, existing as the access to Prospect Bank House, of no historical significance. Obviously named thus because of the prospect it commanded before the development of the area. See also Prospect Bank - Part I |