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Mary King's Close

Royal Mile, Edinburgh

A plague-era street sealed underground, and a little girl named Annie.

Mary King's Close is a narrow street buried beneath the City Chambers on the Royal Mile. It was partly sealed when the chambers were built over it in the 1700s.

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When
From the 1600s
Where
55.9497, -3.1900
Group
Haunted places

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