Editing Dean Village (section)

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Dean Village is one of the oldest of the villages that lay around the original [[Royal Burgh]] of Edinburgh. The village was referred to in 1535 as the ''miller's village'' and appears on the 1560 map of the ''Siege of Leith''. In the Town Council Minutes of 1585 ''Water of Leith'' is used as the name of the village. The term 'Dean Village' initially referred to a small settlement at the top of Dean Path, north of the river, that formed part of the Dean estate (the area now occupied by the Dean Cemetery).<ref name="conservation">{{cite web |url=https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/23369/dean-conservation-area-character-appraisal |title=Dean Conservation Area Character Appraisal |date=5 February 2004 |isbn=1851910646}}</ref>

The first extant mention of the ''Dene'' is in King [[David I of Scotland|David I]]'s founding charter of [[Holyrood Abbey]], usually dated c.1145 (although the actual founding of the Abbey was in 1128), in which he granted one of his mills of ''Dene'' to the Abbey.

Because of its role as a milling village, it became heavily associated with the 'Edinburgh [[Incorporated Trades of Edinburgh|Incorporated Trade of Baxters]]'. The Incorporation of Baxters (or 'Bakers') later built their '[[Tolbooth]]' (meeting chambers) here around 1675.<ref name="conservation"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/200366037-the-old-tolbooth-15-13-bells-brae-dean-village-edinburgh-edinburgh#.YvuG9y8w23U | title=The Old Tolbooth, 15-13 Bell's Brae, Dean Village, Edinburgh, Inverleith, Edinburgh }}</ref>

The Water of Leith Bridge at the foot of the steep roadways of Bell's Brae to the south leading to Edinburgh and Path Brae to the north leading to [[Granton, Edinburgh|Granton]] and [[South Queensferry|Queensferry]], in the centre of Dean Village, is believed to be on the site of ancient crossings of the river. The current bridge was built in the early 18th century as a single arch bridge wide enough for a carriage with horses. At the time, this was the main crossing of the Water of Leith on the route from Edinburgh to Queensferry.<ref name="ravelston">{{cite web | url=https://www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk/dean-village-ravelston-edinburgh | title=Dean Village Ravelston Edinburgh information |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805041924/https://www.allaboutedinburgh.co.uk/dean-village-ravelston-edinburgh |archive-date=2020-08-05 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bell">{{cite web | url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB27952 | title=Bell's Brae and Dean Path, Water of Leith Bridge (Lb27952) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912055711/https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB27952 |archive-date=2022-09-12 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1592, the Dean estate "w’ the mylnes and mure thereof, and their pertinents, lyand within the Sherifdom of Edinburgh,” were given to James Lindsay, 7th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, by James VI. In 1609, the twice later [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh|Provost]] of Edinburgh, Sir William Nisbet, bought the barony of Dean from John, 8th Lord Lindsay of the Byres. William is said by some to have built a tower house here, however it is possible that he remodelled an existing earlier building. It is believed this is the building that would become known as Dean House. It is known that the Dean House was a tower house dating from around the 16th or early 17th century.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/dean-house/ | title=Dean House (Site of) &#124; Castle in Edinburgh, Midlothian &#124; Stravaiging around Scotland }}</ref>