- Telfer Wall
The Telfer Wall was a rubble-built extension to the
Flodden Wall , built around the city ofEdinburgh ,Scotland , between 1628 and 1636 and strengthened in 1650 and 1715. [ [www.scran.ac.uk reference 000-000-127-708-C] ] It was named after itsmason , John Taillefer. [ [http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/portal.hsstart?P_HBNUM=27029 Historic Scotland's description of Greyfriars Churchyard] ]The wall was built to enclose an extra 10
acres of land purchased by the city, [ [http://www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk/edinburgh/oldtown02.html A Guided Walk From The Official Tattoo Web Site] ] running south along the Vennel, from the Flodden Tower - the last remaining bastion of the town walls. [ [http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/edinburgh500_sw.html Town Plan of Edinburgh, Surveyed: 1893-4] ]Building within convert|15|ft|m of the wall used to be forbidden, [ [www.scran.ac.uk reference 000-000-127-708-C] ] but part of
George Heriot's School can be seen close to the inside of the north-south fragment of the wall. The Telfer wall used to close off the end of Forrest Road, [ [www.scran.ac.uk reference 000-000-127-451-C] ] but currently that section only closes off the south end of the Greyfriars Kirkyard. [ [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=eh3+9hh&ie=UTF8&ll=55.945329,-3.191767&spn=0.000397,0.001346&t=h&z=20&lci=lmc:wikipedia_en Google maps satellite view of one of the remaining fragments] ]References
External links
* [http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/MAGS/POST/walk.htm Walk around the Old Town]
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