The Royal Mile is the name given to a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The name was first used in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920.
The thoroughfare, as the name suggests, is approximately one mile long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle (See yesterday's blog) and Holyrood Palace. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town.
There is an excellent website that gives details of all the places that can seen on The Royal Mile HERE
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| Statue of David Hume and St Giles Cathedral |
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| Deacon Brodies Tavern and St Giles Cathedral |
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| The Tolbooth KIrk and the Camera Obscura (left) |
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| Boswell Court entrance |
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| Looking back to the Tolbooth Kirk |
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| One of the many pipers who play for the tourists |
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| Artists |
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| One of the many old side streets leading off the Royal Mile |
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| John Knox's House |
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| The inscription on John Knox's house |
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| The Queen's Gallery at Holyrood Palace |
All images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 and 23mm f2 Fujinon lens
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