Just downhill of New Town and attractively straddling
a river near the elegant Royal Botanic Garden, it’s
small wonder that Stockbridge became one of the city’s
first hip neighborhoods. It’s now one of Edinburgh’s
most desirable, though many bohemian touches have
fallen away as its residents have matured and the area
has gentrified. Some second-hand shops cling on, but
mostly residents display refined tastes in basement
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bistros, gastropubs, coffee and antique shops,
boutiques and delis and at the Sunday farmers' market.
A pleasant ten-minute walk away, along a leafy
riverside path beside the gurgling Water of Leith,
lies Dean Village. This sleepy neighborhood of
medieval half-timbered houses still retains much of
the village feel it had when watermills plied their
trade here. Beyond, the wooded riverside path feels
even more remote as it climbs to the sculpture gardens
of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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