Cowgate
Sign in to saveThe Cowgate (Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town, which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge. It meets the Grassmarket at Cowgatehead at its west end and Holyrood Road to the east.
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- street
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- City of Edinburgh
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Image
- Looking along the Cowgate from Candlemaker Row - geograph.org.uk - 973420.jpg
- Length
- 0.4
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The Cowgate (Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town, which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge. It meets the Grassmarket at Cowgatehead at its west end and Holyrood Road to the east.
==History== right|300px|thumb|James Connolly, an Irish socialist leader who was born in Cowgate
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cowgate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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