The Firth of Forth () is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south.

North Queensferry () is a village in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge, and from Edinburgh.

Dunbar () is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 28 miles ( 45 km ) east of Edinburgh and 28 miles ( 45 km ) from the English Border at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Edinburgh Airport () is located at Turnhouse in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2011, handling just under 9. 4 million passengers in that year.

Broxburn () is a town in West Lothian, Scotland located west of Edinburgh on the A8 road.

The Royal Burgh of Lauder () is a town in the Scottish Borders 27 miles south east of Edinburgh.

The Hong Kong City Hall () is a building located at Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

The land for No. 6 was sold at a public roup () in 1792 to Orlando Hart, an Edinburgh shoemaker, for £ 290.

The Scottish ell () was standardised in 1661, with the exemplar to be kept in the custody of Edinburgh.

Craiglockhart () is a suburb in the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying between Colinton to the south, Morningside to the east Merchiston to the north east and Kingsknowe to the west.

Duddingston () is a former village in the east of Edinburgh, Scotland, next to Holyrood Park.

Silverknowes () is a district of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lenzie () is a small town by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area of Scotland.

Balerno () is a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland situated 12 kilometres south west of the city centre, next to Juniper Green and Currie.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.

It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.

Eastern bongo at Edinburgh Zoo An international studbook is maintained to help manage animals held in captivity.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

His 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The Headmaster's Son is based on his time at The Kings of Wessex School, where his father Keith was the headmaster.

In Scotland is situated the Edinburgh Croquet Club.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the main public hospital for the city.

The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.

The Royal Edinburgh Hospital specialises in mental health ; it is situated in Morningside.

Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

* Edinburgh town walls

The A7 Edinburgh to Carlisle road passes through the town, with main roads also leading to Berwick upon Tweed ( the A698 ) and Newcastle upon Tyne ( the A6088, which joins the A68 at the Carter Bar, south-east of Hawick ).

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

* March 14 – The Edinburgh Evening Courant carries a notice of £ 200 reward for the capture of William Brodie, a town councilor doubling as a burglar.

* April 14 – The Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd.

* April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city ( on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow ).

Expecting the English to press their advantage, the Scots hastily constructed a town wall around Edinburgh and augmented the castle's defences.

Under the influence of William Maitland of Lethington, Mary's secretary, Grange changed sides, occupying the town and castle of Edinburgh for Queen Mary, and against the new regent, the Earl of Lennox.

Edinburgh Castle is the Goanna site and owned by the Clara Williams descendents who reside at the Aboriginal Reservation Muli Muli, which is six miles west of the town of Woodenbong.

The tornado exited Camp Atterbury and crossed US 31, entering the town of Edinburgh.

Edinburg ( originally Edinburgh ) is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

The town is named after the Edinburgh in Scotland.

The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre ; as the location of Alnwick Castle and home of what were in mediaeval times the most powerful northern barons, the Earls of Northumberland ; as a staging post on the Great North Road between Edinburgh and London, and latterly as a modern rural centre cum dormitory town.

In 1968 work started on the Alnwick by-pass, intended to remove the A1 London – Edinburgh trunk road from the heart of the town to its outer edge.

Alnwick town lies adjacent to the A1, the main national north / south trunk road, providing easy access to Newcastle upon Tyne ( south ) and to the Scottish capital Edinburgh ( north ).

In 1852, John Young settled in the area and renamed the town Edinburgh after his place of birth, Edinburgh, Scotland ; Edinburgh became the county seat of Hidalgo County.

An 1827 Act of Parliament arranged for municipal government and administration of justice in the town, providing watching, paving, cleansing, and lighting, with Edinburgh Council responding to the views of Leith townspeople.

The planned development, which was given supplementary planning guidance by the City of Edinburgh Council in 2004, will be the size of a small town with up to 17, 000 new homes.

* Stirling is a historic town in central Scotland, some 30 miles to the north-west of Edinburgh, and is generally known as the " Gateway to the Highlands ", due to its geographical position between highland and lowland Scotland.