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The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town. The Royal Mile contains a variety of shops, restaurants, public houses, and visitor attractions. During the annual Edinburgh Fringe, the High Street becomes crowded with tourists, entertainers, and buskers. Parliament Square is at the ...
The Witchery by the Castle is a restaurant on the Royal Mile near Edinburgh Castle which also provides bed and breakfast accommodation. The restaurant was opened in 1979 by chef James Thompson. At the start there were just three staff but the business has now grown to employ over 70, including several housekeepers, a night porter and 16 chefs. [1]
The High Street runs from St Giles Street to St Mary's Street, the location of the Netherbow Port, and the limit of the pre-19th century burgh of Edinburgh. Borthwick's Close off the High Street The surface of Marlin's Wynd, one of the suppressed closes of the Royal Mile. It was concealed when built over and rediscovered after excavation in ...
In 2008, Headland Archaeology conducted excavations between the High Street and Jeffrey Street and found evidence of the medieval burgage plots; the construction of multi-storey tenement buildings that characterise much of the Old Town 16th century and their later demolition; as well as a tannery that was established on part of the site by the ...
Trunk's Close, with the 1529 'back-land' of Moubray House on the left, with its corbelled projections for stairs. Moubray House lies on the north side of the High Street, between Trunk's or Turing's Close and the John Knox House, near the site of Edinburgh's Netherbow Port, the main gate into Edinburgh before its demolition in 1764.
The museum showcases the lives of merchants, tradespeople, and workers throughout 500 years with options for daily self-guided visits and guided tours, including specialty tours Tables Through Time: Food in Gladstone's Land, A History of Tea, Medical Tales, andIntimate Lives: The history of sex and desire in Edinburgh’s Old Town.(16+). [16]
Corstorphine (Scottish Gaelic: Crois Thoirfinn) (/ k ər ˈ s t ɔːr f ɪ n / kər-STOR-fin) is an area of the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh.Formerly a separate village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, it is now a suburb of the city, having been formally incorporated into it in 1920.
Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Scotland, is located off the High Street, part of the Royal Mile. [1] The square is not a formal square, but consists of two sections surrounding St Giles Kirk on three sides: an L-shaped area to the east and south and another area on the west side of the church called West Parliament Square.