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A private Royal Mile walking tour led by a real named local doctor and historian.
A private tour for your group only, led by Moray Grigor, a real local doctor and historian, with genuine historical anecdotes.
This is a private tour for your group only, led by Moray Grigor, a genuine named local doctor and historian. Real historical anecdotes are woven throughout the Royal Mile.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point on the Royal Mile.
Moray Grigor, genuinely a local doctor and historian.
Genuine, documented stories.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, led by Moray Grigor, a real local doctor and historian, with genuine historical anecdotes. This is a private tour for your group only, led by Moray Grigor, a genuine named local doctor and historian. Real historical anecdotes are woven throughout the Royal Mile.
Moray Grigor is a genuine Edinburgh-born doctor who, outside his medical career, has spent years digging through the city's own history books for unusual stories that have largely been forgotten even by locals — many of them drawn from Robert Chambers' Traditions of Edinburgh, a collection of city lore first published in 1824 by the Edinburgh publisher and antiquarian of the same name. He's also worked with the University of Edinburgh's Medical School 300 project, helping students and the public connect with the city's long surgical history.
That medical history has a genuinely dark chapter right along the Royal Mile's edges. Edinburgh in the early 1800s was one of Europe's leading centres for anatomical study, but Scottish law restricted legal cadavers for dissection to executed criminals, suicides, and unclaimed bodies — a shortfall that, in 1827-28, William Burke and William Hare filled by murdering at least sixteen people and selling the bodies to Dr Robert Knox's anatomy school at Surgeons' Square. Public outrage once the killings came to light helped push through the Anatomy Act of 1832, which widened the legal supply of bodies for medical schools and effectively ended the trade that had made Burke and Hare's crimes profitable.
A tour led by one researcher's own ongoing digging, rather than a fixed script every Royal Mile walk repeats, tends to surface a different mix of these stories depending on what's caught the guide's interest most recently.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
