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Example sentences for: canongate
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On the left as you walk, you will see the Canongate Tolbooth, with its distinctive clocktower overhanging the pavement.
Cross the busy road at the bottom of Canongate to enter the Holyrood area, Edinburgh’s current royal quarter.
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.
The Royal Mile becomes Canongate where it intersects St. Mary’s Street.
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.