Essential Edinburgh City Tours
Edinburgh - Living City Education Pack
Visit:
Places of Interest
Shops, Pubs & Hotels
Streets
Community & Education
Churches
People
Architecture
Statues & Public Works of Art
Explore:
Edinburgh Castle
The Royal Mile
Princes Street
The New Town
The Water of Leith
Dean
Stockbridge
Canonmills
Broughton
Inverleith
Newhaven
Leith
image copyright Rachel Windsor
The name of this section of the Royal Mile remembers the Act of 1477 allowing lawn or cloth merchants to sell their products here. It has also been known as the Landmarket, for a similar reason, namely the market once held here for the sale of vegetables and other produce of the land.
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