Greyfriars Bobby

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  • Address
    cnr George IV Bridge & Candlemaker Row, Old Town
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    bus: 2, 23, 27, 41, 42 or 45

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Lonely Planet review

One of Ediburgh's most popular memorials is the tiny statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye terrier who maintained a vigil over the grave of his master, an Edinburgh police officer, from 1858 to 1872. The story was immortalised (and romanticised) by Eleanor Atkinson in her 1912 novel Greyfriars Bobby, which was made into a movie in 1961 by - who else? - Walt Disney (a remake was released in 2005).

Bobby's grave - marked by a small, pink granite stone - is just inside the entrance to Greyfriars Kirkyard . His original collar and bowl are in the Museum of Edinburgh.