Deans Village Walk - Edinburgh

Perfect.
Used to go to The Baillie as a student in the early 70’s.

(It’s just “Dean”……no “s”. ) 🙂

You will pass by St Bernard’s well just before you get to St Bernard’s Bridge,so spend a few minutes looking there, you can get right down onto the water.You can only get into the well building on certain days of the year but worth stopping just to have a look.
I was born just 200 yards or so from the Baillie Bar ,in Leslie place,70 years ago,the place has changed a bit since then .Where is your starting point, plenty of buses go nearby,I often do parts of the Water of Leith walkway, you could start at Roseburn Terrace /Cliff and that will take you into the Dean village, nice walk when the weather is nice.

Thanks for posting this. I would like to make this walk when in Edinburgh this May if possible.

Any thoughts on how suitable and/or enjoyable this walk might be for three young (4, 6, and 9) active, generally interested in adventure, and usually well-behaved children?

I believe my 3 children, now age 50, 47, and 44, would have really enjoyed the walk at the age you reference. They can run ahead along the path, explore down by the river, throw rocks, etc., especially true for boys and energetic girls. Plus, I estimate that the entire experience would be a little less than an hour so there is little time for boredom. I won't be doing the walk until September so let me know how it goes if you do it. Since the plan is untested, any suggestions would be appreciated. My only concern is that there are no public restrooms in the area, but in the old days I just sent my boys into the woods. When I used to take my 3 then little ones out for adventures, i would add some spice to it by saying we are going to look for a recently reported Martian landing. In this case perhaps you could reference a look for leprechauns or something similar. My 3 still occasionally reference that day.

https://www.waterofleith.org.uk/audio-trail/ , this is a link to the Water of leith walkway, I have set it to the page that give you audio visual info on the various areas, hope it is of interest to everyone, you can actually buy a map via Paypal link and onthe main pages links to various events that may be going on. https://www.waterofleith.org.uk/whats-on/

My wife just found an excellent change to the plan: first will be taxi to "The Painted Rooster" for breakfast which is only a 2 minute walk to the previous start point of Deans Bridge. The build your own breakfast looks super. I'm going for fried free range egg, hash browns, fried tomato, and of course some savory haggis - hopefully I have room for the espresso caramel brownie. Has anyone been there?

I was just looking at my photos of Dean Village from my last visit to Edinburgh a few years ago . What memories !