Scotland > 1882-1915 - Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland > 1903, Part 2 - Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland ... (Royal National Directory of Scotland.) With ... map, etc

DIRECTORY.]
EDINBURGH AND LEITH.
XXIU
the depth within the pier at low water is from ten to
twelve feet, and at high water about twenty-seven. Ex-
tensive breakwaters, exceeding i,ooo yards in length,
extend on either side of the pier, thus forming a protected
harbour. One of Morton's patent slips is laid down, and
there are warehouses for bonded goods. Ship building
is carried on on a large scale. There is a large hotel, and
the North British Railway Company have a station ; and
hence passengers and goods are embarked for Burntis-
land, whence the railway is continued to Aberdeen &c. It was
atGranton that H.M. the late Queen Victoria landed on her
visit to Scotland on the ist of September, 1842. The Cale-
donian Railway Company hasalso a station at Granton, and a
branch line, for goods only, running to the harbour. The
population of Granton quoad sacra parish in 1901 was 1,728.
Entries and clearances, Granton : —
British, entered 54, tonnagi 052,975 ; cleared 12, 10,749
tonnage; foreign, entered 210, tonnage 95,170; cleared
186, tonnage 74,014. Coastwise, entered 194, tonnage
77,649 ; cleared 232, tonnage 105,208. The number of
vessels registered as belonging to the port December 31st,
1902, was 48, of 1,662 tons, and of fishing boats 42, of 1,405
tonnage, employing 335 men and boys.
Value of total imports in 1902 was ,^801, 455, and of the
exports of British and Irish produce, ^^224,355.
GoHOiB is a village in the parish of St. Cuthbert, lying
to the south-west of Edinburgh, on the road to Ratho, and
has a station on the Suburban and Southside branch of the
North British railway. The population in 1891 was 807.
MoERAYFrELD is a western suburb of the city, situated
where the road to Corstorphine crosses the Water of Leith,
and has a station on the Leith and Cramond Brig branches
of the Caledonian railway.
Newhaven, a fishing village and harbour and a quoad
sacra parish erected from that of North Leith, lies about a
mile west from Leith Fort, with a station on the Leith
branch of the Caledonian railway.
Trinity, a district between Newhaven and Granton, is a
residential marine suburb of Edinburgh on the Forth, having
a chain pier at which steamboats call, and a station on the
North British railway.
Stockbridge is a district in the noith-east of Edinburgh.
PoRTOBELLO, now added to the City and Coimty of Edin-
burgh, will be found at page 138.
POPULATION.
EDINBURGH PARLIAMENTARY BURGH.
No. I or East Division
No. 2 or West Division
No. 3 or Central Division ...
No. 4 or South Division ...
Constituencies.
Inhabited houses.
Pop.
1903
1901
igor
11,488
15.650
73.181
3,969
11,817
SS.46+
7,242
12,622
62,262
15,801
22,310
107,205
Total 62,399
MUNICIPAL OR ROYAL BURGH.
Wards.
First, or Calton
Second, or Canongate
Third, or Newington
Fourth, or Morningside ...
Fifth, or Merchiston
Sixth, or Gorgie
Seventh, or Haymarket ...
Eighth, or St. Bernard's ...
Ninth, or Broughton
Tenth, or St. Stephen's
Eleventh, or St. Andrew's...
Twelfth, or St. Giles'
Thirteenth, or Dairy
Fourteenth, or George Square
Fifteenth, or St. Leonard's
Sixteenth, orPortobello ...
VALUATION of the Parish of Edinburgh, 1902-3
BURGH PARISHES OR PARTS OF PARISHES.
Edinburgh
Cramond
Duddingston (part, including Portobello parliamentaiy burgh)
Liberton (part)
Leith
298,113
5.527
25,026
5.152
24.339
3.839
18,993
4,056
19,090
4,328
21,024
3.495
16,568
2.657
14,064
3.069
15.856
3.037
13.955
4.177
19.315
3.006
13.833
5.589
28,038
4.895
22,894
5.005
25,039
5.774
26,45a
2.473
12,037
65,849
316,523
...
...;f2,28o,470
63.205
t303.633
159
1,088
2,252
11,205
12
74
231
1.456
65,849
317.461
t Including 322 officials and 702 inmates of the Royal Infirmary ; 122 officials and 198
inmates in the City Hospital ; 103 officials and 712 inmates of Edinburgh Royal Asylum ;
97 officials and 196 inmates of Craighouse (Edinburgh) Royal Asylum ; 26 officials and 666
inmates of Edinburgh (Craigleith) Poorhouse ; 341 military and 105 non-military servants &c.
in the Castle and Married Soldiers' Quarters, and 350 in Edinburgh Prison.
LEITH BURGH.
Leith (part of).,
Wards.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
IS.9"
2,271
2,879
1,911
3.121
3.425
3.290
77.439
10,634
12,104
9.777
13.540
15.972
14,641
15,911
76,668