Editing Royal Mile (section)

==Canongate==
[[File:Anchor-close.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Anchor Close at twilight looking towards Cockburn Street from the Royal Mile.]]
[[File:The time is 1884 (40498302805).jpg|thumb|left|Canongate Tollbooth Clock]]
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Beyond the crossroads, the Royal Mile continues down the Canongate, meaning literally "the canons' way" when it was used in former times by the [[Canons regular#Canons Regular of Saint Augustine|Augustinian]] canons of [[Holyrood Abbey]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/part1/c.htm | title = The Derivation of Edinburgh's Street Names | access-date = 2012-09-10 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120808230712/http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/part1/c.htm | archive-date = 8 August 2012 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The street continues downhill past [[Moray House School of Education#Old Moray House|Moray House]] (now the main academic offices of [[Moray House School of Education]] of the University of Edinburgh), the [[Canongate Tolbooth]] (now a museum of social history called [[The People's Story Museum|The People's Story]]), the [[Kirk of the Canongate]] (the Canongate's parish church and a thriving congregation of the Church of Scotland) and the new [[Scottish Parliament Building]] to Holyrood Palace and the ruined abbey. Until 1856 the Canongate was not merely a street, but the name of the surrounding burgh, separate from Edinburgh and outside the Flodden Wall.