Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Abbey

Abbey, a precinct in Canongate par., Edinburgh, containing Holyrood Palace and Abbey, and including the Queen's Park; the place has a peculiar notoriety as a regal "sanctuary" for insolvent debtors.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a precinct"
Administrative units: Midlothian ScoCnty
Place: Abbey

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