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At the western end of Cowgate (where it meets Holyrood Road), you will see one of the few remaining sections of Edinburgh’s old city wall (Flodden Wall), built following the “Lang Siege” of the 1570s.
David also founded the Abbey of Holyrood and created several royal burghs (towns with special trading privileges), including Edinburgh and Canongate; the latter was under the jurisdiction of the monks, or “canons,” of Holyrood.
It was here that the Royal Botanic Garden was moved in 1823 from a location not far from the Abbey of Holyrood.
Since then, almost every reigning monarch has spent time (or held soirées) at Holyrood.
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.