HERITAGE TRAIL
The Edinburgh Heritage Trail takes visitors on a short but enlightening journey from the Ramsay monument in Princes Street through the Old Town, to the sites of Ramsay’s home, his shop and library, and his many cultural and social venues.
Born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire in 1684, Allan Ramsay moved to Edinburgh as an apprentice wigmaker in 1701. In the wake of the union of 1707, he familiarised himself with literature and began to write in his native language. As a pioneer of an integrated, synthetic Scots, Ramsay was a major influence on Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns.