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11,000 using the walkway in one week

Sunday, 29 October, 2017 - 17:07
The walkway through Dean Valley is immensely popular and the count of those using the walkway in August showed a dramatic rise in numbers by 37% to over 11,000 people using the walkway over a seven day period. 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 Dean Valley, to find out how many people exactly were using the walkway on a daily basis. Recent numbers from Living Streets show that an impressive total of 11,001 people either walked, jogged or cycled...
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How Dean got its bridge

Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 - 16:13
By David Perry In autumn, 1825, John Learmonth, the senior partner in the family’s coach-building business, feued 133 acres of the Dean Estate from Sir John Nisbet. The southern boundary of this land stood on the edge of an abyss - the Dean - created by the Water of Leith as it cut its way through the rock over the centuries. 100 feet below, the river flow drove the mills of the Village of the Water of Leith. And 500 feet across the ravine, on Randolph Cliff, grand new buildings were going up in the New Town. Learmonth wished to...
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Georgian Gardens revealed in new book

Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 - 15:29
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town, and the publication of John Byrom’s much-awaited manual on the gardens that are so integral to this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The book is the result of decades of research, providing detailed guidance on the long term management and maintenance of Edinburgh’s 47 circus, square, crescent and informal grid-edge gardens that has remained previously unpublished. These gardens are very special, specifically designed to add colour and vibrancy to the city’s urban landscape – lush green contrasts to the classical sandstone architecture. They not only contribute aesthetically...
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‘Proposed Dean Valley Renovation: First Phase Feasibility Study

Monday, 11 September, 2017 - 11:55
The ‘Proposed Dean Valley Renovation: First Phase Feasibility Study’ outlines recommendations for the repair and restoration of the Dean Valley walkway. The Dean Valley walkway is part of a wider historic designed landscape that includes the three adjacent gardens of Moray Bank Gardens, Dean Gardens and Belgrave Crescent Gardens. The designed landscape falling within the Edinburgh World Heritage site is the subject of a Conservation Statement (Peter McGowan Associates July 2015) and a Biodiversity Scoping Study (Sue Bell Ecology July 2016). This ‘Proposed Dean Valley Renovation: First Phase Feasibility Study’ follows on from these two pieces of work and focuses...
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