Answering my own question, here's an excerpt from "The Place Names of Edinburgh": "WHITEHILL (Newcraighall) is shown thus on /Blaeu/ 1654 and was the original name of NEW HAILES, re-named in 1708 when it was acquired by the owner of Hailes, near East Linton. /Knox/ 1812 shows Hailes but also Whitehill at Wanton Walls; and this gave the names of WHITEHILL MAINS to the farm, WHITEHILL STREET to the row of cottages shown on /Ordnance survey/ 1852 as already developing beside the road earlier shown on Roy 1753, and WHITEHILL TERRACE to a row on the opposite sied, suppressed in the redevelopment of the mining village in 1980. WHITEHILL ROAD, also figured on /Roy/, is named as the road leading to Whitehill Mains. The place name is Anglian /hwit hyll/ or Scots /white hill/, evidently referring to a hill which, perhaps by reason of grassiness, showed up as paler amid the surrounding heathy landscape: possibly it was the knowe on which Whitehill House was later built; or else it may have been the low but prominent hill that rises to a summit in the west of Whitehill Mains." The area, known as Newcraighall, is in Portobello. There is still a Whitehill Street there, but I can't tell from the map I currently have open which street it is. The "Wanton Walls" (meaning "intermitent springs or wells) also shows up on this current map, and there is still a Miner's institute in the area as well. I can't help with your quest to learn when the cottages were removed, but next time I'm in Portobello I'll have a look for the area. It appears, though, to have been the way they were going, as the companion cottages were removed in 1980. Hope this is of some help. Leslie On 13/12/2004 23:48:41, midlothian-l@rootsweb.com wrote: > Elenor, > I can't find any mention of a Whitehill STREET in Edinburgh (modern map). > Could it be Whitehill AVENUE, DRIVE, FARM ROAD, GARDENS or GROVE? Those > are the Whithills I can find. >Leslie >On 13/12/2004 20:57:24, midlothian-l@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Can anybody help me to find out what happened to this house and number > > 58. > >Tried the council but they have no records of these houses being > > demolished. > > Could it have been something to do with the railway. > > Eleanor >Kodiak Web Design > http://www.kodiak-web-design.com > -- > browsers i use: >opera 6.06 and 7.54 > ie 5.0 and 6.0 > netscape 4.77, 6.2.3 and 7.2; Mozilla 1.7.3; Firefox 0.9 >WinXP Home (broadband) and Win98 (dialup) Kodiak Web Design http://www.kodiak-web-design.com -- Browsers I use: Opera 6.06 and 7.54 IE 5.0 and 6.0 Netscape 4.77, 6.2.3 and 7.2; Mozilla 1.7.3; Firefox 0.9 WinXP Home (broadband) and Win98 (dialup)