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The Village of Stockbridge

Monday, 20 February, 2017 - 21:34
The distinctive village of Stockbridge can be said to extend from Saxe-Coburg Place in the north to St Bernard’s Well in the south, and from St Stephen’s Church in the east to the Grange Cricket Pavilion in the west. On this map you can see where this area is located. The blue pins denote the four above-mentioned locations whilst the orange pins show other significant locations. The Stock Bridge itself, originally made of wood, was replaced in stone in 1786, widened and strengthened in 1830, and rebuilt in its present form in 1900. A little further upstream, we find the...
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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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