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Mosgiel is a town (population 9,500) within the city limits of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, standing at the northeastern extremity of the Taieri Plains, and the Taieri River runs through the north end of the town.

The town is separated from Dunedin city by rugged hills which form part of the crater wall of a long-extinct volcano. The SH1 motorway upgraded in 2003 links Mosgiel to the city centre, 15 kilometres to the northeast.

Mosgiel takes its name after Mossgiel in Ayrshire, the farm of poet Robert Burns, who was the uncle of the co-founder of the Otago settlement, Thomas Burns. The town's economy was until recent years based on the production of wool products. It is an important service town for the farming community on the Taieri Plain, and is home to one of the country's largest agricultural research institutes, Invermay.