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This is the former boundary of the town of Edinburgh and the neighboring town, called Canongate, which was a community of aristocrats and members of the royal court serving Holyrood Palace.
The Royal Mile becomes Canongate where it intersects St. Mary’s Street.
The town’s High Street stretched beneath the castle along the ridge to the east (today the Royal Mile), past the parish church of St. Giles, and out to the Netherbow, where Edinburgh ended and Canongate began.
Canongate derived its name from an edict by David I (1124–1157), founder of the Abbey of Holyrood, who granted a right to raise a gate between the abbey and the Royal “burgh” of Edinburgh.
Several historical buildings lead off Canongate, and a number have interesting stories to tell.