Advocate's Close off the High Street
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Advocate's Close off the High Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 3 Apr 2013
Another of those Old Town closes where buildings of dizzying height so impressed visitors who saw them in the 18th century. "The buildings here, elsewhere called houses, are denominated lands; and the apartments, in other place named stories, here called houses, are freeholds, inhabited by different families, whereby the houses are so excessively crowded with people, that the inhabitants of this city may justly be presumed to be more numerous than those of some towns of triple its dimensions." -- William Maitland, History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time, 1753
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Image Location
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55.949845
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-3.191352