Sheep Heid Inn View from North West
SC 533251
Description Sheep Heid Inn View from North West
Catalogue Number SC 533251
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9849
Scope and Content The Sheep's Heid Inn, The Causeway, Duddingston Village, Edinburgh The Causeway, Duddingston's main street, is a narrow lane which runs from the gates of the church the length of the village. It has a number of 18th- and 19th-century houses, as well as the village's only public house, the 18th-century Sheep's Heid Inn. The Sheep's Heid stands on the corner of The Causeway occupying a site where there has been a public house from at least the 16th century. The ground floor is Edwardian, and the pub has a skittle-alley of the same period at the back. The inn, a popular hostelry for visitors from Edinburgh in the 18th century, was where 'many opulent citizens resorted in the summer months to solace themselves on one of the ancient homely dishes of Scotland', namely, sheep heads, boiled or baked. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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