Portobello

Portobello, a Scottish watering-place on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, 3 miles E. of Edinburgh. Its first house (1742) was built by one of Admiral Vernon's seamen in the expedition against Puerto Bello, and hence it derived its name; but it dates, like its eastern extension Joppa, almost wholly from a time later than 1804. An esplanade, $\backslash frac\{3\}\{4\}$ mile long, skirts the broad level sands; and there are a promenade pier of 1250 feet (1871), municipal buildings (1878), half-a-dozen churches, and manufactures of pottery, bricks, bottles, &c. Portobello, with Leith and Musselburgh, returns one member to parliament. Pop. (1841) 3587; (1891) 8682. By the Edinburgh Extension Act (1896) Portobello was incorporated with Edinburgh.