The Back Walk & Burgh Wall
The Back Walk follows the line of the old Burgh Wall from Dumbarton Road, site of the original Burgh Gate, around the Old Town and toward Stirling Castle.
It is here that sightings were reported to the wicked Black Lady – a ghostly Nun seeking for her secret Priestly lover. Accounts of the sinful nun, oddly enough, first appear in the 17th-century...two centuries after there were any nuns in Stirling, and are probably the result of the anti-Catholic sentiment rife in the Burgh at that time.
Further fortified by Mary de Guise to repel English attach during the infancy of her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, it helped defend the town from invasions by the Earl of Surrey, Roundheads and Jacobites.
Torn down in the 1760s, this leafy walkway became Stirling’s first visitor attraction.
- SYHA Youth Hostel, St John Street
- The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd
- Tolbooth Entrance, Jail Wynd
- Hangman's Close, St John Street
- Mercat Cross, Broad Street
- Broad Street
- Darnley Coffee House, Bow Street
- Mar's Wark, Castle Wynd
- Old Town Jail
- Holy Rude Church and Auld Kirkyard
- Auld Kirkyard & Holy Rude Church
- Ladies' Hill, Auld Kirkyard
- Mary Witherspoon's Grave, Auld Kirkyard
- Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Road
- Valley Cemetery
- John Cowane's Hospital, St John Street
- Auld Staney Breeks at Cowane's Hospital
- John Cowane's House on St Mary’s Wynd
- Argyll's Ludging, Castle Wynd
- The Back Walk & Burgh Wall
- Beheading Stone, Gowan Hill
- Stirling Castle
- Argyll's Museum, Stirling Castle
- The Settle Inn, St Mary's Wynd
- Nicky-Tam's Bar & Bothy, Baker Street
- Thistles Shopping Centre, Goosecroft Road
- The Bastion, The Thistles Shopping Centre
- Haunted Stirling
- The Golden Lion, King Street