Cemetery
Greyfriars Kirkyard Cemetery Edinburgh
Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh EH1 2QQ, UK
Historic graveyard with a Covenanters' prison, a haunted mausoleum, and a legendary loyal dog.
This guide to Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh starts at the bronze statue of Greyfriars Bobby and a number on its plaque that does not add up: fourteen years of loyal vigil. You'll hear how the dates around the Edinburgh time gun, an innkeeper named John Traill, and a caretaker named James Brown all complicate the tale, and what a historian found by comparing old photographs of the dog. It follows the gap between the legend Edinburgh tells and what the record actually shows.
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