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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.
Cross the busy road at the bottom of Canongate to enter the Holyrood area, Edinburgh’s current royal quarter.
The Royal Mile becomes Canongate where it intersects St. Mary’s Street.
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.