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4 unusual facts about Dean Village


Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart

In recognition of his contribution to the work of the Court of Justice and to Community law he was created a Life Peer on 18 October 1988 as Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, of Dean in the District of the City of Edinburgh (his Peerage, unlike his surname and Scottish judicial title, was hyphenated).

Dean Village

The cemetery which is one of the few in Scotland run as a non-profit making charity trust (to avoid being asset-stripped), is the resting place of many well-known people, including the railway engineer Sir Thomas Bouch and David Octavius Hill.

It was known as the "Water of Leith Village" and was a successful grain milling hamlet for more than 800 years.

Dean Bridge was featured in Ian Rankin's fictional book Strip Jack, in which a woman is found dead in the river underneath the bridge.



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