Edinburgh Royal Mile Canongate Tolbooth (#1111)

The tower in the photo was built in 1591 as a tolbooth, which is not a ‘toll booth’ but instead the main municipal building of a burgh. The portion of the building east of the tower (further away in the picture) was built at about the same time. When the tolbooth was built, it was built for Canongate, which was a burgh to the east of Edinburgh and outside the walls mentioned in the World’s End Close pictures.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canongate_Tolbooth

(Part of a documentation of 2018 exploration/reflection on Brexit and populist movements in Europe, keyword Europe2018)