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<p>to the east and <a href="page.php?w=Bruntsfield">Bruntsfield</a> to the northeast.</p>

<p><big> History </big></p>
<p>The first known reference to Merchiston is found in the 1266 <a href="page.php?w=Exchequer_Rolls_of_Scotland">Exchequer Rolls of Scotland</a>. At this point Merchiston consisted of one of a number of independently owned estates to the southwest of the <a href="page.php?w=Burgh_Muir">Burgh Muir</a>. <a href="page.php?w=Alexander_Napier_%281st_Laird_of_Merchiston%29">Alexander Napier</a>, a wealthy Edinburgh merchant and provost of the</p><p>
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