Pedal Power – A Tour of the Lothians
This trip covers a distance of 40 miles running from Currie in the west to Dunbar in the east. Bordered by the Pentland Hills, the Moorfoots and the Lammermuirs, the city of Edinburgh and the North Sea coast, it offers miles of varied countryside.
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Binny Craig – Lothian Walks
I worked for many years in Fife and learned to pick out our West Lothian hills from the other side of the water. Easiest to recognise are, without a doubt, Cockleroi and Binny Craig. Now everybody knows Cockleroi, Linlithgow’s hill, with access from Beecraigs Country Park, and the Knock, Bathgate’s hill, and Cairnpapple, the Beaker People’s hill, but it never fails to surprise me how few people know where Binny Craig lies and how to get there.
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The Esks at Dalkeith
Rivers of the Lothians are like members of a family – the North Esk at Roslin, the Avon near Linlithgow, Almond, Water of Leith etc. The valleys bear certain resemblances to one another. They are all beautiful but, as I was brought up here, Dalkeith must have the finest setting of all.
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Fauldhouse to Levenseat
Walking from Fauldhouse to Levenseat and back, some of the earlier industrial development in West Lothian seems to us now, unbelievably tasteless and destructive. But it was seldom on a huge scale and towns and villages stayed fairly compact, so that people did not lose touch with open country. Again, as mining and heavy industry have died out, the scars disappear, to leave behind areas of country that are often enhanced by recent industrial history.
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