Dean Village, Well Court

Category

Library Item

Item no

41008

Title

Dean Village, Well Court

Artist / maker

Wyllie, H. D.

Date

1950

Size

13.4 x 9.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Dean Village is a riverside community in the west of Edinburgh, roughly half a mile from the West End of Princes Street. It has a long history as a grain milling hamlet stretching back at least as far as the early 12th Century. The increasing strength of the Leith flour mills in the 19th Century led to a period of economic decline in the village, but it is now an affluent and desirable place to live. Despite its close proximity to the centre of Edinburgh, Dean Village retains a quiet atmosphere in keeping with its rural heritage.

Well Court, completed in 1886, was designed by the architect Sydney Mitchell as model housing for local workers. It contained small but comfortable flats and a communal hall where compulsory religious meetings were held on Sunday. A major restoration started in 2007.

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