The #RoyalMile is the name given to a succession of #streets forming the main #thoroughfare of the #OldTown of the #city of #Edinburgh in #Scotland The name was first used in W M Gilbert’s Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920. The thoroughfare is approximately one #Scots mile long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the history of Scotland, namely #EdinburghCastle and #holyroodpalace published onInstagram