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Musselburgh

Musselburgh is the largest town in in central Scotland, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. It's an old fishing port which is now part of the commuter belt, with a population in 2020 of 21,100.
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  • Type: Town with 23,600 residents
  • Description: town in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Baile nam Feusgan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musselburgh railway station and Inveresk Lodge Garden.

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
is a railway station serving the town of Musselburgh, near in . It was opened by British Rail in 1988 and is located on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of , and is served by the North Berwick Line.

Garden
Photo: Renata Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, in the village of , . The lodge lies about 10 km south-east of Edinburgh, and for over a century was one of the homes of the Wedderburn family.

Theater building
Photo: John Lord, CC BY 2.0.
The was a mid-scale performing arts venue in Musselburgh, , . It is part of a wider complex, incorporating council offices, called Brunton Memorial Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Edinburgh and Wallyford.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of Musselburgh. It's a sprawl of residential and industrial districts, and the only two parts of interest to visitors are Portobello beach resort and the hamlet of Duddingston.

Village
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village near Musselburgh and approximately seven miles east of in , Scotland.

Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland. It lies between Musselburgh and , to the east of the city of . In 2022 it had a population of 1330.

Musselburgh

Latitude
55.9421° or 55° 56′ 32″ north
Longitude
-3.0539° or 3° 3′ 14″ west
Population
23,600
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MUS
Open location code
9C7RWWRW+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30349906
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641942
Wiki­data ID
Q37718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Musselburgh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماسلبره”
  • Armenian: “Մասլբորո”
  • Asturian: “Musselburgh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Masselboro”
  • Basque: “Musselburgh”
  • Bengali: “মুসেলবার্গ”
  • Bulgarian: “Муселбургх”
  • Catalan: “Musselburgh”
  • Cebuano: “Musselburgh”
  • Chinese: “馬瑟爾堡”
  • Chinese: “马瑟尔堡”
  • Dutch: “Musselburgh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماسلبيرج”
  • French: “Musselburgh”
  • Georgian: “მასელბორო”
  • German: “Musselburgh”
  • Gujarati: “મુસેલબર્ગ”
  • Hebrew: “מוסלבורג”
  • Irish: “Baile nam Feusgan”
  • Italian: “Musselburgh”
  • Japanese: “マセルバラ”
  • Japanese: “マッセルバラ”
  • Kannada: “ಮುಸ್ಸೆಲ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Korean: “머슬버러”
  • Lithuanian: “Miuselburgas”
  • Macedonian: “Маселбург”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Musselburgh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Musselburgh”
  • Norwegian: “Musselburgh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Musselburgh”
  • Persian: “ماسلبرگ”
  • Polish: “Musselburgh”
  • Portuguese: “Musselburgh”
  • Russian: “Масселборо”
  • Russian: “Массельбург”
  • Scots: “Musselburrae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile nam Feusgain”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile nam Feusgan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Musselburgh”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Musselburgh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماسلبرق”
  • Spanish: “Musselburgh”
  • Swedish: “Musselburgh”
  • Tamil: “மஸ்ஸபுரஃஹ்”
  • Telugu: “ముస్సేల్ బర్గ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Масселбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Массельбург”
  • Urdu: “مسسیلبورگھ”
  • Urdu: “مسلبرگھ”
  • Welsh: “Baile nam Feusgan”
  • Welsh: “Musselburgh”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Musselburgh”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.