View of bridge over Water of Leith.
ED 5334
Description View of bridge over Water of Leith.
Date 6/1957
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 5334
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 572449
Scope and Content The Stock Bridge, Stockbridge, Edinburgh Stockbridge, Edinburgh's northew Town village, straddles the Water of Leith to the north of the city between the older communities of Dean and Canonmills. The pre-1813 village of riverside cottages, mills and villas was quite transformed by later development. The bridge, built in 1786, and widened and improved in 1900-1, carries the road from the New Town across the river in a single span. The clock tower of the former Trustee Savings Bank on the north bank forms part of the distinctive skyline of the village. Stock Bridge, from the Scots 'stock brig', means a timber bridge or footbridge. In the 18th century, before the village had its first stone-built bridge, there was a ford near the site of the present bridge and a wooden footbridge some distance upstream. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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