The Heart of Midlothian

Oct 102024

197 High St, Edinburgh EH1 1RE

The site of the Old Tolbooth is marked by a heart-shaped mosaic in the pavement outside St Giles’ Cathedral. The Old Tolbooth, demolished in 1817, had been known as the ‘Heart of Midlothian’ (Midlothian was the old county in which Edinburgh was located). The phrase was popularised by Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and was later adopted by the Edinburgh football team Heart of Midlothian F.C.

Bricks in a heart-shaped arrangement on the ground; inside the heard there is a circle and cross emblem. — The Heart of Midlothian
©Kim Traynor, Wikimedia Commons

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Wikipedia: Heart of Midlothian

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