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# Craigmillar Castle · OpenVibe.Tours

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# Craigmillar Castle

Extensive ruin of a medieval castle, built from the 14th century and abandoned in the 18th.

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![Craigmillar Castle](https://openvibe.media/o/med_01M70PKF9K3Q6X6BZXV61PA3T3) Photo: Photograph by Stuart Yeates, from en:Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0 · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACraigmillar_Castle.jpg) · [licence](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

- [**Directions** open the map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9256&mlon=-3.1409#map=16/55.9256/-3.1409)
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## Why go

Here was hatched the plot to murder Lord Darnley, the inconvenient husband of Mary Queen of Scots. He was blown up at Kirk O'Field (now the site of the university Old College) and when that didn't do the job he was smothered.

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh/South)

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