Parks & Walks in Edinburgh
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Craigmillar Castle is a medieval castle on Craigmillar Castle Road, about a mile outside Edinburgh's old city walls, built around one of Scotland's oldest tower houses. Mary Queen of Scots took refuge here in 1566, and visitors can explore the great hall and prison, see a P-shaped fishpond and look across to Holyrood Park and Edinburgh Castle.
Historic Environment Scotland do not publish a line about visitors' dogs for this site. Their site-wide rule, from their own pages, is that assistance dogs are permitted at all their sites including roofed areas, that dogs must be kept on a lead at all times and never left unattended, and that owners must pick up after them. Whether ordinary visitors' dogs are admitted here is not stated either way, so check the signs on arrival before counting on it.
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