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Walkers hope to see improvements

Sunday, 5 February, 2017 - 15:33
According to our recent survey, fitness and walking to the shops are the main reasons why Dean Villagers use the Dean Valley walkway to Stockbridge. More than half said they would use the walkway more often if the path was improved. Following a survey conducted in November 2016, with a 16% response, the majority of walkers are using the pathway more than once a week. Though the path was generally considered safe and clean many wanted a more even surface, better maintenance to include sweeping up leaves, lighting and a speed limit for cyclists. More than half said they would...
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The lost view of the Water of Leith

Monday, 21 November, 2016 - 20:48
Lord Cockburn’s view rediscovered! In Memorials of his Time, that great book about early nineteenth-century Edinburgh and its citizens, Lord Cockburn remembered fondly the view that had recently been destroyed when the Earl of Moray developed his land to the west of the first New Town. ‘It was then an open field of as green turf as Scotland could boast of, with a few respectable trees on the flat, and thickly wooded on the bank along the Water of Leith. Moray Place and Ainslie Place stand there now. It was the beginning of a sad change, as we then felt...
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Bat monitoring in Dean Valley

Sunday, 16 October, 2016 - 17:58
In early October we took part in a bat monitoring exercise in Dean Valley, led by Leonie Alexander, an expert from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Although late in the season, we localised a number of bats near Dean Bridge. The Dean Valley with its river and associated woodland has been identified as a Local Biodiversity Site, a site of local importance for wildlife. Species of bat, which receive high levels of protection as European Protected Species, are present within the valley. Read more about this in our Biodiversity Scoping Document . As part of the Edinburgh Living Landscape initiative,...
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Popular valley walkway

Sunday, 16 October, 2016 - 15:49
The walkway through Dean Valley is immensely popular with joggers, dog walkers, pedestrians and cyclists, with sometimes as many as 1,200 people a day. The walkway though Dean Valley is part of the 12.25 miles long Water of Leith Walkway that runs all the way from Balerno to Leith, via the heart of Edinburgh. All parts of the public footpath and cycleway are very popular and the Dean Valley walkway is no exception. In partnership with Living Streets Scotland, a charity promoting safe everyday walking in the UK, we installed automatic counters beside St Bernard's Well, in the heart of...
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