Grindlay Street Court pend
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Grindlay Street Court pend
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 25 May 2009
Central Edinburgh has many pends, like the one pictured above, from the days of horse-drawn transport. Setts, as the rectangular cobbles are known, once covered the whole of central Edinburgh, but have now mostly disappeared. They could be notoriously treacherous for horses' hooves in bad weather.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.946572
Longitude
-3.204542