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Edinburgh, Dean Village, Dean Path, Water Of Leith Bridge

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Architectural Fragment(S) (Post Medieval), Bridge (18th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Dean Village, Dean Path, Water Of Leith Bridge

Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (Post Medieval), Bridge (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Linking Bells Brae And Dean Path; Old Dean Bridge

Canmore ID 119797

Site Number NT27SW 676

NGR NT 24122 73925

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119797

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View of West Mill and Water of Leith Bridge etc, from east, inscr; 'Mills Water of Leith, drawn from Nature'
View of West Mill and Water of Leith Bridge etc, from east, inscr; 'Mills Water of Leith, drawn from Nature'Photographic copy of watercolour showing general view. View from riverside of Water of Leith Bridge, West Mill (unrestored) and Holy Trinity ChurchEdinburgh, Dean Path, Water of Leith Bridge Photographic copy of engraving showing bridge over Water of Leith Copied from 'Modern Athens'. Insc. 'Stock Bridge. Water of Leith. Drawn by Tho. H Shepherd. Engraved by J B Allen'17 Bell's Brae and Old Dean Bridge. Scanned image of IGL W399/1/5.Oblique aerial view of Drumsheugh Baths, Dean Path, Dean Village and Belgrave Crescent, looking ENE.View looking towards Water of Leith Bridge, Holy Trinity Church with Dean School and 12 Hawthornbank Lane and 13 Bell's BraeGeneral view of Dean showing West Mill, Dean School, Old Tolbooth, 17 Bell's Brae and Water of Leith GeneralOblique aerial view of Dean Village, Damside, Dean Path, Dean Bridge, Rothesay Terrace and Drumsheugh Baths, looking NW.General view downstream towards Water of Leith Bridge and Holy Trinity Church also showing 12 Hawthornbank Lane and 17 Bell's BraePlan and elevation, the Old Dean BridgeView over Water of Leith Bridge of police box, Old Tolbooth and 13 Bell's BraePlan and elevations of 27 Dean Path. Scanned image of E 42756.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

Edinburgh, Leith Old Bridge.

'Etching by John Clerk' - 1 lithograph.

Location uncertain at time of upgrade 21.12.1999.

Edinburgh, Water of Leith Village.

In the National Library of Scotland, vol I, nos 3.62 and 63; and vol II, nos 25,26 and 27 of water colour sketches by Thomas Brown, advocate, are sketches of scenes in the Water of Leith village. Reference 'Adv. MSS. 34.8.1-3'. See under 'Water Colour Sketches, series of, by Thomas Brown, advocate'.

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Publication Account (1951)

RCAHMS County Inventory: The City of Edinburgh

In the masonry at the S. end of the bridge [NT27SW 676] crossing the Water of Leith at the foot of Bell's Brae are inserted two stones recently removed from Lindsay's Mill [NT27SW 698]. On the first is a panel displaying the date 1643 and two bakers' peels in saltire, each bearing three cakes. The second is a window lintel inscribed BLESIT BE GOD FOR AL HIS GIFTIS.

RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941

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