Greenhill is a small area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. South-west of the city centre, Greenhill is normally taken to be part of Bruntsfield, which continues to the north. Greenhill borders Marchmont and The Grange to the east, Morningside to the south, and Merchiston is west, beyond Holy Corner. It comprises a mixture of Georgian and Victorian villas and some tenement housing.
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The Greenhill name derives from the former estate of Greenhill, which included the Burgh Muir (see Burghmuirhead).
A stone carving depicting the former manor house may still be seen on the wall of a tenement house at the corner of Bruntsfield Place and Bruntsfield Gardens.
A walled, roofless structure built or rebuilt some time after 1894 is thought to relate to John Livingstone,[1] an apothecary and former Laird of the estate. It stood in the grounds of the manor house when it existed and now lies adjacent to a smaller private Victorian villa. A tombstone carries the date 1645.[2] The roughly square area contains an information plaque, memorial bench, and plants, and was subject to a bitter legal dispute after the villa changed ownership.[3][4]
In 2006 the Greenhill area was brought into the "S2" (southern zone 2) controlled parking zone, making the majority of roadside parking available only to residents paying Council Tax and purchasing a permit. This was done in conjunction with an expansion of the controlled parking zone across the city (see transport in Edinburgh).