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Musselburgh is a town in East Lothian , Scotland , on the coast of the Firth Of Forth , six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. It lays claim to the title of Scotland's oldest town. It was first settled by the Romans in the years following their invasion of Scotland in AD80. They built a fort a little inland from the mouth of the River Esk and bridged the river here. In doing so they established the line of the main eastern approach to Scotland's capital for most of the next two thousand years. The bridge built by the Romans outlasted them by many centuries. It was rebuilt on the original Roman foundations some time before 1300, and in 1597 it was rebuilt again, this time with a third arch added on the east side of the river. The Old Bridge is also known as the Roman Bridge and remains in use today by pedestrians. To its north is the New Bridge built in 1806. This in turn was considerably widened in 1925. The town has a population of 22,112 (, to the south of the town. Schools include Loretto School , a private boarding school, and Musselburgh Grammar School , the local large comprehensive that is one of the oldest Grammar schools in the country, dating from the 17th Century . A new campus of Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University College is being built in Musselburgh. Musselburgh is known as "The Honest Toun", and celebrates this by the annual appointment of the Honest Lad and Lass. Musselburgh has a railway station situated on the North Berwick Line served by frequent First Scotrail services from Edinburgh to North Berwick . It is a relatively new station, opened in 1995. Wallyford station serves the eastern end of the town. The town's original station was situated close to the town centre at the end of a short branch from Newhailes Junction. Passenger services from there ceased in 1964 and the line ultimately closed to all traffic in the early 1980s. It is now a road bypassing the Fisherrow area of the town. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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