Golf Tavern, Bruntsfield Links
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Golf Tavern, Bruntsfield Links
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 19 May 2009
A public house that claims to have been established in 1456, although the earliest recorded mention of a tavern on the Links is in 1717. The interior has been modernised several times, leaving no trace of the past. Bruntsfield is claimed to be the earliest place where golf was played in the Edinburgh area (mentions of golf at Leith Sands being even earlier). "He [David Garrick] told us to bring golf clubs and balls that we might play the game at Molesey Hurst. We accordingly set out in good time, six of us in a landau. As we passed through Kensington, the Coldstream Regiment were changing guard, and on seeing our clubs they gave us three cheers in honour of a diversion peculiar to Scotland." -- 'Jupiter' Carlyle, accompanied by John Home in 1758 Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.940382
Longitude
-3.20355