Mary King’s Close: The Buried Streets Beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile

Mary King's Close, the buried seventeenth-century street beneath Edinburgh's Royal Mile

About 4 min readBeneath Edinburgh’s City Chambers lies a warren of seventeenth-century streets, buried when the Royal Exchange was built over them. Legend says plague victims were walled up inside in 1645. The documented truth is different — and the ghost of a little girl called Annie still draws visitors from around the world.