Talk:Duddingston

Sheep Heid Inn
=A reference to a "Sheip's Heid" appears in the Percy Folio MS., dating from about 1560, satirizing the Church sacraments :-

"John Anderson, my jo, cum in as ye gae by, And ye sall get a sheip's heid weel baken in a pye- Weel baken in a pye, and a haggis in a pat; John Anderson, my jo, cum in and ye'se get that."

Robert Burns visited the Sheep Heid Inn much later, and has his own song "John Anderson". EnLicht (talk) 14:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

"Hi, i'm not too sure how these talk pages work, but I have to try and rectify a small problem here with the article where it states that 'Bonnie Prince Charlie held a council of war in a house[13] in the village, shortly before the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745.'

I checked the source at but it doesn't give me much information about the house. So I went to look at maps of the city and Duddingston. Both the James Knox Map of the shire of Edinburgh, plus the John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, give no record of any building standing on that location. The Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 1st Edition - 1856-1891 is one that manages to place buildings on that location, but I have yet to find any which show the building existing before that date. If somebody could help me verify this, or find more maps from around the mid 18th to 19th centuries(showing the building existing or not) it would be much appreciated."109.154.210.14 (talk) 17:10, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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Treverlen
Does anyone have real evidence that Treverlen was a name of an area here? It has a feeling of fake news, aka modern legend.Sebmelmoth (talk) 09:10, 13 March 2017 (UTC)