Explore Grassmarket Plaques & History

Explore Grassmarket plaques & local Grassmarket history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Grassmarket.

About Grassmarket
Grassmarket is a historic market place and event space in the Old Town of Edinburgh. In relation to the rest of the city it lies in a hollow well below surrounding ground levels.

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plaques Walkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Grassmarket history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Grassmarket plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Grassmarket’s physical Grassmarket plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Grassmarket the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.

Grassmarket plaques & short history overview