Editing Water of Leith (section)

==Course==
[[File:Water of Leith - geograph.org.uk - 46853.jpg|thumb|Upper reaches of the Water of Leith]]
The length of the main stream is {{Convert|31.7|km|mi|0|order=flip}}. Its source is the Colzium Springs in the [[Pentland Hills]].<ref name="Management Plan">{{cite report |author=Helen Brown |date=3 April 2020 |title=Water of Leith Management Plan 2020-2030 |url=https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/28361/water-of-leith-management-plan-2020-to-2030 |publisher=Water of Leith Action Group |page=4 |format=pdf |access-date=22 August 2023 }}</ref> The river travels through [[Harperrig Reservoir]], past the ruins of [[Cairns Castle]], on to [[Balerno]], [[Currie]], [[Juniper Green]], [[Colinton]], [[Slateford]], [[Longstone, Edinburgh|Longstone]], [[Saughton]], [[Balgreen]], [[Roseburn]] and [[West Coates]]. The river nears Edinburgh city centre between [[West End, Edinburgh|West End]] and [[Dean Village]]; the site of old [[watermill]]s in a deep gorge. The [[ravine]] is dramatically spanned by the [[Dean Bridge]], designed by [[Thomas Telford]] and built in 1832 for the road to [[South Queensferry|Queensferry]].<ref>{{Canmore |num=119344 |desc=Edinburgh, Queensferry Road, Dean Bridge |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>

[[File:St Bernards Well - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|St Bernard's Well sits alongside the Water of Leith in the [[Stockbridge, Edinburgh|Stockbridge]] area, with [[Comely Bank]] opposite]]
The river flows on past [[Stockbridge, Edinburgh|Stockbridge]], [[Inverleith]], [[Canonmills]] and [[Warriston]] where it passes through shallows at a place known as Puddocky which is commonly thought to refer to "puddocks", the [[Scots language]] term for frogs,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: puddock |url=https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/puddock |access-date=2023-08-22}}</ref> but actually took its name from the former Paddock Hall sited nearby.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ashford |first=Zella |title=The Lands of Warriston |url=https://oldedinburghclub.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BOEC_NS3_1994_The_Lands_of_Warriston.pdf |format=PDF |journal=The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Journal for Edinburgh History |publication-date=1994 |volume=3 |page=1 |issn=2634-2618}}</ref> The river continues past [[Bonnington, Edinburgh|Bonnington]], the site of another watermill, to [[Leith]] where it widens into the old harbour and port at the [[The Shore, Leith|Shore]]. Leith Docks have been extended considerably out into the [[firth]] from the old shoreline.