Dean Village Edinburgh

This guide to Dean Village follows the autumn of seventeen ninety-three, when a local blacksmith named Robert Orrock was hired to hammer out pike heads in a smithy at the foot of this milling hamlet on the Water of Leith. He told his neighbors he was making garden ironwork, while radical Robert Watt was quietly planning to use the crowd it armed against Edinburgh Castle's garrison. Look for the old bakers' guild plaques among the cottages, a reminder that eleven working mills once turned here, feeding Edinburgh its bread.