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-Your Edinburgh tour finishes in the Canongate-_
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St Mary's Street - Chessel's Court - The Canongate - Moray House - The Canongate Tolbooth - Tolbooth Wynd - Bakehouse Close - Huntly House - Queensberry House - White Horse Close - Scottish Parliament - Abbey Strand

The final stretch of your Edinburgh tour will visit over twenty more scenes. The Canongate was once one of the wealthiest parts of Edinburgh, although this isn't technically true as Edinburgh and the Canongate were two seperate burghs.

This part of your Edinburgh tour starts at St Mary's Street. Like it's parallel neighbour Blackfriars, St Mary's Street was originally a wynd.

The the west side of the wynd (or left hand side as you go up) was used as part of the Flodden Wall defensive structure.

The tour takes you into a side street which takes us to the well preserved building of Chessel's Court. This was once used as an excise house and it was this which made it attractive to Deacon William Brodie. Brodie's bungled burglary here eventually resulted in capture and his execution at the Tolbooth.

The Canongate is the fourth section of the Royal Mile that you've visited. It was once a seperate burgh from the capital and lay outside of the Flodden Wall and, as a result, it wasn't crowded with houses in the same way that the Old Town was.

The Canongate was a very opulent part of the town for a large part of it's history. The inhabitants were able to build bigger houses without adding storey upon storey. The feeling of protection which the Flodden Wall had given the people of Edinburgh didn't apply in the Canongate. Houses could be built out, rather than up!

The tour passes some really fascinating buildings in this tour and in just a few clicks you'll learn a bit about Moray House, the Canongate Tolbooth, Huntly House and Queensberry House. You stop at White Horse Close and get a chance to admire its quaint buildings before ending your Edinburgh tour in the sanctuary of Abbey Strand, next to the Scottish Parliament and Holyrood Palace.

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This tour has been split up into three sub-tours. Each of these take you around some of the most interesting locations in Edinburgh.

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Chessels Court features on your last Old Edinburgh tour. This well restored building was where a certain Deacon William Brodie made a bungled burglary which would signal the begining of the end for the flamboyant Edinburgh playboy.

The Canongate Tolbooth is just one of the fascinating buildings which we see on the final leg of our Old Edinburgh guided tour.

One of the most picturesque closes is Bakehouse Close which sits next to Huntly House and Acheson House.

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