View of White Horse Close.
SC 488196
Description View of White Horse Close.
Date 10/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 488196
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 1147
Scope and Content White Horse Close, Canongate, Edinburgh White Horse Close, formerly Ord's Close, is the entrance to a court built for Lawrence Ord in the late 17th century. The White Horse Inn at the north end was the starting-point of one of the first regular stagecoaches to London. The court, once the site of the stables for the Royal Mews of Holyrood Palace, was rebuilt by Lawrence Ord with houses, hayloft, coaching stables and an inn named after a white palfrey or lady's saddle-horse. The Canongate was the starting-point of one of the first regular stagecoaches to London. In 1754 a stagecoach to London took eight days for the journey. Scotland Yard, London, was so called as this was the terminus for the coaches from Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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