Dean Village Riverside Walk

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art sits inside a neoclassical building marked by a distinctive pair of monumental, sweeping staircases that flank the main entrance. Built in eighteen twenty-eight as an orphanage, it housed boys…

The wrought iron gates of Dean Cemetery guard a landscape of tiered terraces and Victorian funerary monuments that spill down toward the Water of Leith. Established in eighteen forty-five on the grounds of the former Dean House, the…

The Water of Leith Weir is a wide, terraced stone cascade that stretches across the river in the heart of Dean Village. It once powered the many grain mills that lined these banks for centuries. In eighteen twenty-six, a massive flood…

Well Court stands out for its bright red sandstone walls and its clock tower rising above the steep banks of the Water of Leith. The Edinburgh Social Union commissioned these tenement flats in eighteen eighty-four to improve housing for…

A neoclassical rotunda stands in the valley of the Water of Leith, topped by a statue of Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health. Lord Gardenstone commissioned this structure in seventeen eighty-nine after he claimed the mineral water cured…

The Stockbridge Market sits tucked below street level in a former dairy courtyard, marked by a row of striped gazebos huddled against the stone walls. It appeared in twenty-ten when a local resident named Sandy Philip decided the…

The Stockbridge Colonies consist of a series of stone-built, terraced streets stacked against the steep bank of the Water of Leith. Each flat has its own front door and a small garden, connected by external stone stairs that create a…