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Dist:0.3km<br/>No burn is shown on the map, and the area is blank and labelleed as 'disused workings'. It is however, under there somewhere and emerges to join the Bilston Burn a bit further along the path, which is frosty after a clear night.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Catching the sunlight on the slopes of a restored ex-mining landscape.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Nature has done a good job of recolonising this former mine waste tip with a fine stand of birch trees.
©Dr Duncan Pepper
Dist:0.4km<br/>Constructed by '3 Armoured Engineering Squadron' in October 1994. A reciprocal view to Morley Sewell's image [[903209]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Here mostly levelled spoil and colonising birches, at the junction of footpaths from Loanhead, Roslin and Bilston.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking downstream from the footbridge [[2173140]], shortly before it disappears under a restored mining landscape, to emerge as part of the Bilston Burn.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>This wooden bridge, which now forms part of the footpath from Bilston to Roslin, appears to use the abutments of an older bridge that once will probably have carried a carriage road associated with the now demolished Dryden House.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking upstream from the wooden footbridge [[2173140]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>An old souterrain, possibly an ice-house associated with Dryden house which was knocked down some time since 1930.
©Morley Sewell
Dist:0.5km<br/>Mixed deciduous woodland lines this steep glen, which is bordered by a variety of well signposted paths between Bilston, Roslin and Loanhead.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>The square is dominated by the remains of Bilston Glen, a famous colliery. This mound is still shown as a coal store on the OS map. Dryden is one of the sites of the Battle of Roslin in 1307.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>Remains of Midlothian mining activity - now mostly restored and being recolonised by birches, but some other trees like oak occur.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking down the glen from a restored landscape between Kill Burn and Bilston Burn valleys. The grey structure near the right skyline is Bilston Viaduct [[NT2864]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>A rural scene not far from land reclaimed from disused coal mine workings. In the background is the ridge of Turnhouse, Carnethy, Scald Law and South Black Hill.
©Jim Barton
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©M J Richardson

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