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Looking northward, up Huntersfield Road past a few shops in the middle of Gorebridge.
©Richard Webb
What we all have?
©M J Richardson
The B6372, looking south.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.1km north<br/>The church, which occupies the old Free Kirk building, is part of aN independent Pentacostal movement.
©james denham
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Centre of this now large village, which is finding a new post mining role as an Edinburgh dormitory.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.1km north<br/>A street of new houses - part of 'Newbyres Village' in Gorebridge.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A view from the top of the bus, across Hunterfield Road [B704] towards the Police Station at Gorebridge.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>One of many in this ex-mining area. Continue along this one for about 2.5 km and one arrives at the old Lady Victoria Colliery, which is now the Scottish Mining Museum - see [[NT3363]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Junior Football Club in Arniston Engine. Play in the East Region Superleague. Junior football is a parallel universe, where some clubs, especially in the West are bigger in terms of crowds and playing standards than some clubs lurking at the bottom of Division 3.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km north<br/>An older house at Gorebridge that seems to have been marooned in an estate of newer houses.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Former railway from Edinburgh to Carlisle via Galashiels and Hawick. There are plans to reopen it as far as Tweedbank, but the work is constantly delayed. The cost, fears of gouging fares and the fact that only Galashiels will directly benefit have made the project a divisive issue in the Borders.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Standing in the north part of the town. (more to follow)
©james denham
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Bonnybank Road and Stobhill Primary School.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km east<br/>It's not all the aftermath of the coal mines here in Midlothian. A warm end of summer day is being exploited to get dryish grain in.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km south<br/>
©M J Richardson

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