Greyfriars Kirkyard & Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Kirkyard / Greyfriars Bobby

A loyal terrier's statue and a graveyard of Potter names

Hours

Open in daylight hours (closing varies, check on site); statue always accessible

Tickets

Free

Address

Entrance on Candlemaker Row; the Bobby statue is on the corner just outside

On the street corner sits a small bronze Skye terrier: Bobby, said to have guarded his master's grave for 14 years. Inside the kirkyard, mossy headstones and 17th-century tombs carved with skulls crowd the slope. Some names, like Thomas Riddell, are said to have fed into Harry Potter, so plenty of visitors wander the stones hunting for them. Over the wall you can see the castle and the turrets of George Heriot's School.