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Looking north east towards the outskirts of a housing estate at Polton Mill [the terminus of the 31 bus - the other end is at East Craigs, in western Edinburgh]. The houses are on Cameron Crescent.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Housing estate on the outskirts of Bonnyrigg.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A beech tree deals with the problem of having a deep gully carrying an old roadway undermining its roots.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The newer parts of Bonnyrigg expand into the Midlothian countryside. As is common near big cities, a lot of farmland, and much of this square, is now used for livery stables.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km north<br/>The trees conceal the valley of the River North Esk, and the north eastern end of the Pentland Hills are in the distance.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>The North Esk emerges from the gorges into what was shown by the OS as parkland, but appears to be in transition to naturally seeded woodland. Taken from the old branch railway to Polton.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.8km southeast<br/>Farm buildings being turned into residential properties.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.9km south<br/>Potato field at Hawthornden. The road behind the hedge runs from Polton Hall to the A6094.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.9km southeast<br/>The conversion is complete by the looks of things ( [[29023]] ).
©Callum Black
Dist:0.9km southeast<br/>
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.9km south<br/>
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.9km west<br/>In the Roslin Glen, the site of a paper mill that must have been demolished a few years ago. Amongst the piles of rubble and old roadways opportunist colonising plants such as birch and buddleia are creating a new woodland. Often such mill sites end up as housing.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.9km east<br/>One of many 'dead' pubs around the Lothians
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.9km south<br/>A typical row of single story farm cottages, and a wheatfield.
©Richard Webb
Dist:1.0km west<br/>Hewan Bank is on the north side of Roslin Glen near Polton.
©Morley Sewell

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