Qualla: Bruntsfield https://qualla.com/bruntsfield en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/bruntsfield-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bruntsfield https://qualla.com/bruntsfield Bruntsfield: Introduction https://qualla.com/bruntsfield/ Photo credit kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walk across Bruntsfield Links on a summer evening and you might find a casual pitch-and-putt match in progress, clubs cracking softly against balls that arc over the same grass where Edinburgh's poor were buried during plague outbreaks centuries ago. This is one of the oldest known places where the game of golf was played, a sloping green carpet a mile south of Princes Street that doubles as park, golf course, and unwritten archive of the city's history. The tenements around it are tall, dignified, Victorian. The shops below them are small. The whole place feels, somehow, both lived-in and watched-over.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/bruntsfield-wp/gcvw-bruntsfield-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bruntsfield: Brown's Fields https://qualla.com/bruntsfield/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name is a worn-down version of "Brounysfelde" or Brown's Fields, after a medieval landowner named Richard Broun. In 1381, during the reign of Robert II, a charter granted these lands to William Lauder, and the Lauder family held Bruntsfield for centuries. The mansion they bui...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/bruntsfield-wp/gcvw-bruntsfield-browns-fields.mp3 0:06 2 full Bruntsfield: Where Golf Began https://qualla.com/bruntsfield/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bruntsfield Links is one of the earliest sites in the world where golf was played. Edinburgh's golfing tradition runs back at least to the 17th century here, and a pitch-and-putt course still occupies the links today, keeping the thread unbroken. The Burgh Muir, the larger common...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/bruntsfield-wp/gcvw-bruntsfield-where-golf-began.mp3 0:06 3 full Bruntsfield: Holy Corner and Muriel Spark https://qualla.com/bruntsfield/ Photo credit Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Where Bruntsfield meets Morningside, four Victorian churches cluster around a single junction so densely that locals have nicknamed it Holy Corner. Walk in any direction here and a spire frames the view. The neighbourhood's literary credentials run nearly as deep as its religious...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/bruntsfield-wp/gcvw-bruntsfield-holy-corner-and-muriel-spark.mp3 0:06 4 full Bruntsfield: The Shape of a Neighbourhood https://qualla.com/bruntsfield/ Photo credit Benjamin Brock, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bruntsfield's housing is mostly high-quality stone tenements interspersed with the occasional grand villa, the kind of building that wraps families in thick walls and tall windows. Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative, Scotland's longest-established worker co-operative, has its flagshi...

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