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Highlights
- Spend 90 mins walking through Greyfriars Graveyard, stand inside a historic witches stone circle, and enter the dimly lit Niddry Street vaults beneath the city.
- Follow a trained storyteller who separates myth from documented history, giving context to the vaults, prison grounds, and graveyard you see.
- Designed for visitors aged 12 and above, as the themes include prison history, crime, and unsettling stories that may not suit younger children.
Your Experience
Over 90 minutes, leave the busy Royal Mile behind and follow your guide into silent graveyard lanes and beneath the streets into stone vaults. At each stop, the stories unfold exactly where the events once took place.
Getting Started
Meet your guide on the Royal Mile at Lawnmarket, surrounded by stone buildings and street performers. After a quick ticket check and short safety briefing, the group sets off through the Old Town. The tour finishes near the Niddry Street vaults.
What To Expect
Walk through Greyfriars Graveyard, hear stories of body snatchers and Covenanters Prison, then descend into the Niddry Street vaults and visit a historic witches’ stone circle linked to chilling local legends.
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Greyfriars Graveyard: Walk among weathered gravestones, stone mausoleums, and narrow paths while hearing stories of the people buried here, including the well known Greyfriars Bobby.
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Covenanters Prison: Stand inside an enclosed section of the kirkyard once used to confine prisoners, and learn how overcrowding and unrest gave this area its grim reputation.
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Niddry Street vaults: Move through dim stone chambers beneath the city streets, spaces once used as storage rooms and shelter, now linked with strange reports and urban legend.
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Witches’ stone circle: Pause beside a ring of stones once associated with a coven, and hear about the accounts visitors have shared over the years.
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Macabre Edinburgh lore: Throughout the walk, your guide connects each location with real events, from grave robbing schemes to stories rooted in Edinburgh’s Old Town streets.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- 1 hour 30-minute guided walking tour of Edinburgh's vaults
- Visit Greyfriars Graveyard
- Visit Niddry Street underground vaults
- Access the stone circle in the vaults
- Visit Covenanters Prison
- Visit the Grassmarket
- Terrifying tales of Edinburgh’s Covenanters Prison and colourful history
- Transportation to and from meeting point
- Food and drinks
- Personal expenses
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Ticket Delivery
- Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
- Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
- Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Cancellation Policy
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts.
Frequently asked questions
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