Edinburgh Riding Of The Marches 2024 Dates

Edinburgh Riding Of The Marches 2024 Dates. Crowds turn out in edinburgh’s royal mile to watch annual riding of the marches. The edinburgh riding of the marches is one of edinburgh’s largest public events, taking place right in the heart of the scottish capital every september.

The tradition of “riding the marches” or “common riding” as it is known in the scottish borders is thought to date as far back, as to the twelfth century when scottish towns. On sunday 15 september the spectacle of the edinburgh riding of the marches with hundreds of riders on horseback will attract crowds to the royal mile.