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|description={{en|1=Libberton or Libberton's Wynd was a steep street which ran downhill from the Lawnmarket to the Cowgate, roughly on the line of the eastern side of present-day George IV Bridge. The wynd disappeared with the building of the bridge, which was completed in 1834. The innkeeper John Dowie kept a tavern here which was frequented by Robert Burns during his stay in Edinburgh in 1786. After Dowie's death in 1817, the new owner displayed a signboard with the name "Burns Tavern".}}
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|description={{en|1=Libberton or Libberton's Wynd was a steep street which ran downhill from the Lawnmarket to the Cowgate, roughly on the line of the eastern side of present-day George IV Bridge. The wynd disappeared with the building of the bridge, which was completed in 1834. The innkeeper John Dowie kept a tavern here which was frequented by Robert Burns during his stay in Edinburgh in 1786. After Dowie's death in 1817, the new owner displayed a signboard with the name "Burns' Tavern".}}

|date=between 1817 and 1834

|date=between 1817 and 1834

|source=scanned from Sir Herbert Maxwell, Edinburgh, A Historical Study, London 1916

|source=scanned from Sir Herbert Maxwell, Edinburgh, A Historical Study, London 1916

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