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Extract from the Leith Travel Guides:
For several hundred years,
LEITH
was separate from Edinburgh. As Scotland's major east coast port, it played a key role in the nation's history, even serving as the seat of government for a time, and in 1833 finally became a burgh in its own right. In 1920, however, it was incorporated into the capital and, in the decades that followed, went into seemingly terminal decline: the population dropped dramatically, and much of its centre was ripped out, to be replaced by grim housing schemes.
The 1980s, however, saw an unexpected turnaround, and today the port boasts arguably the best concentration of good restaurants (p...
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