Netherbow Port

The town’s most important gate, the Netherbow Port stood in the middle of the High Street just below John Knox’s house.The gate was a place at which ‘tack’ or customs duty was levied on all goods entering the town. The Netherbow Port was taken down in 1764. The site where it once stood, by the World’s End pub, is marked by brass studs in the middle of the road. The pub is so named because the citizens of Edinburgh once considered this point to be at the outer reaches of their world.