Looking through Sugarhouse Close to the Royal Mile

View from Sugarhouse Close - looking across the Edinburgh Royal Mile towards Tolbooth Tavern and Old Tolbooth Wynd

© Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk      Photograph taken 23 August 2003

 

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Sugarhouse Close

The view above looks through Sugarhouse Close and across the Royal Mile to Tolbooth Tavern and Old Tolbooth Wynd.

In the 19th century, Sugarhouse Close led to a sugar refinery to the south of the Canongate.

Historical detail above taken from A Guide to the Royal Mile (Gordon Wright) ISBN 0 903065 88 6

 

 

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