Edinburgh: The Vaults & Graveyard Tour

Over 90 minutes, leave the busy Royal Mile behind and follow your guide into silent graveyard lanes and beneath the streets into stone vaults. At each stop, the stories unfold exactly where the events once took place.

Getting Started

Meet your guide on the Royal Mile at Lawnmarket, surrounded by stone buildings and street performers. After a quick ticket check and short safety briefing, the group sets off through the Old Town. The tour finishes near the Niddry Street vaults.

What To Expect

Walk through Greyfriars Graveyard, hear stories of body snatchers and Covenanters Prison, then descend into the Niddry Street vaults and visit a historic witches’ stone circle linked to chilling local legends.

• Greyfriars Graveyard: Walk among weathered gravestones, stone mausoleums, and narrow paths while hearing stories of the people buried here, including the well known Greyfriars Bobby.

• Covenanters Prison: Stand inside an enclosed section of the kirkyard once used to confine prisoners, and learn how overcrowding and unrest gave this area its grim reputation.

• Niddry Street vaults: Move through dim stone chambers beneath the city streets, spaces once used as storage rooms and shelter, now linked with strange reports and urban legend.

• Witches’ stone circle: Pause beside a ring of stones once associated with a coven, and hear about the accounts visitors have shared over the years.

• Macabre Edinburgh lore: Throughout the walk, your guide connects each location with real events, from grave robbing schemes to stories rooted in Edinburgh’s Old Town streets.