Radical Road

At the bottom of Salisbury Crags can be found the Radical Road constructed in 1820. The radical road was named after the men who built it, a group of unemployed weavers from the west of Scotland who thought that politics was the cause of their misfortune and aimed to make things right through physical means. A committee was formed to provide work for the radical weavers constructing roads and walkways round the crags and calton hill.