Arthur Conan Doyle and Picardy brass plaque

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Conan Doyle. Located close to The Conan Doyle is Picardy Place, where the pub's namesake, the great author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22nd 1859. There have been houses on this site since 1685 when French refugees (who had fled the province of Picardy due to the revocation of the Edic

t of Nantes when Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal) built Picardy village. Today, an over life-size bronze statue of Conan Doyle's greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, stands opposite hos birthp

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