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Within ten years of the Young Pretender’s occupation of Holyrood, Edinburgh’s town council proposed a plan to relieve the chronic overcrowding of the Royal Mile tenements by constructing a New Town on land to the north of the castle.
To the south of the palace are the green landscapes of Holyrood Park, including the volcanic peak known as Arthur’s Seat.
In the 16th century this thoroughfare became known as the Royal Mile because it was the route used by royalty to make their way from the castle to Holyrood.
From Grassmarket, a road runs parallel to the Royal Mile to Holyrood on a lower level.
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.