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A big chunk of Edinburgh green belt, between the Pentland Hills and the City Bypass. This is Swanston golf course, one of several on the slopes of the Pentland Hills.

©Richard Webb

Dist:0.2km<br/>Part of the livery facilities at Swanston Farm.

©M J Richardson

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©Darrin Antrobus

Dist:0.4km<br/>After a heavy fall of snow the steep slopes of Swanston Golf Club provides a good sledging location for adults and children a like!

©Graeme Yuill

Dist:0.4km<br/>Holiday cottages and offices on the right hand side of the road to Swanston to the south of the City By-pass. These are former farm buildings converted to a more economic use. The entrance to cottages 4-9 is shown here.

©michael ely

Dist:0.5km<br/>This part of the A720 opened around 1982. Since then houses have been built on the inside, between the old ring road and the new road.

©Richard Webb

Dist:0.5km<br/>The Pentland Hills from the Howden Burn path at Dreghorn.

©M J Richardson

Dist:0.6km<br/>A small group of old cottages, famous for being where Robert Louis Stevenson visited for weekends from Edinburgh.

©M J Richardson

Dist:0.6km<br/>Snow clad cottage in the old village of Swanston, suburb of Edinburgh, UK

©Stevie Wallace

Dist:0.6km<br/>Picturesque Swanston village sits directly beneath the Pentland Hills on the southern boundary of Edinburgh. In 1964, in one of its more inspired decisions, Edinburgh Council renovated these former farmworkers cottages and retained the original thatched roofs. Nearby is Swanston Cottage where Robert Louis Stevenson lived from 1867 - 1880.

©ronnie leask

Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking over Lothianburn golf course. To the left of the trees [the 'T-wood'] is the valley of the Swanston Burn, beyond which are the upper reaches of Swanston Golf Course, then Dreghorn and Redford Barracks and, even further in the distance, Corstorphine Hill and the Firth of Forth [11 km away]

©M J Richardson

Dist:0.6km<br/>Another Swanston cottage on a summer evening.

©Richard Webb

Dist:0.6km<br/>In the gable wall of one of the newer houses at Swanston [[2337456]].

©M J Richardson

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