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Official St Giles Cathedral website
Official website with visitor information on shop, restaurant, the building itself, its history and music events.

St Giles Cathedral
Brief info page on St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile.

Feature Page of St Giles Cathedral
Undiscovered Scotland has pictures and extensive information on St. Giles.

Photos of St Giles Cathedral
Old prints, engravings and postcards of St. Giles in Edinburgh.

St Giles Cathedral Pictures Gallery
Good quality pictures of St. Giles.

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Photos of St Giles Cathedral Pictures of and inside St Giles Cathedral.

Attraction details - St Giles Cathedral St Giles Cathedral tourist information including opening times, contact details, etc.

St Giles on the web Links to other web pages related to St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh Old Town.

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Origin of 'Edinburgh'

Tourists have problems with the name of Edinburgh. There are hundreds of ways people write it and the most common writings include 'edinburg', 'edinborough', 'edimburgh', 'edinbourgh', 'ediburgh', 'edinbugh', 'edinboro', 'edingburgh', 'edinbrugh', 'edimburg', 'edinburugh', 'edingurgh', 'edinbrough', etc.

According to the Scottish Place Names dictionary, the name Edinburgh means 'Fort of the Rock Face'. The 'edin' part comes from Scottish Gaelic and means 'rock face', while 'burgh' comes from Old English meaning stronghold.

Some more obscure (and quite funny) ways of writing Edinburgh include: edinburough, edingburg, edinbourg, edinburh, edinurgh, edenburg, edinbough, edinbourough, edinbrgh, edingborough, edenburgh, edinberg, edinborgh, edinborugh, edinburge, edinburhg, edingbourgh, etc.

Edinburgh is spelt Edimburgo in Spanish and Italian and Édimbourg in French.

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