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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PORT EDGAR Port Edgar
Port Edgar
Port Edgar
James Dundas Esqr. Dundas Castle
Peter Cram Grocer South Queensferry
Forrest's Co. [County] map
002 [Situation] About ½ mile WNW [West North West] of the burgh of Queensferry

A middling sized freestone pier in very good repair. It was erected in 1810. by the Queensferry Passage Trustees at the expense of £4763.13.10. and is 378 feet in length. The ledge of rocks on which the pier is built was naturaly suited for a landing place, and to the circumsta [circumstance] of Edgar Aitheling (heir to the confessor) landing there it owes its name. On the 15th August 1822 King George IV embarked there after paying a visit to the Earl of Hopetoun. On the 1st Oct 1823 were landed from his majesty's sloop of war Brisk, from France the corpse of the Earl.

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Parish of Dalmeny -- Sheet II [2] -- Plan 16 -- Trace 2

[Faint note] -- Supposed Landing Place of Prince Edgar of Atheling (1066)

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