Canongate Tolbooth

Canongate Tolbooth - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Canongate Tolbooth is a historic landmark of the Old Town area of Edinburgh, built in 1591 as a tolbooth, that is, the centre of administration and justice of the then separate burgh of the Canongate which was outside the Edinburgh town walls. It ceased to be a municipal building in 1856 and it is now occupied by The People's Story Museum and is protected as a category A listed building. Read more on Wikipedia

type: historic site
date from: 1591

Source: en.wikipedia.org