Category: Musselburgh

As you would imagine the town of Musselburgh is named after the vast mussel beds that lie along the shoreline. This town on the Firth of Forth is located at the mouth of the River Esk and was at one point nothing more than a row of simple fisherman’ s cottages perched along the coastline close to the harbour. The origins of the town though are much older and date as far back as roman times when the area was home to a fortified outpost located upon Inveresk Hill. The…