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This square contains many industrial units on old coal mine land. This is one of them down an old mine access road.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Now tarmaced for use as a footpath and cycleway, here passing the grain silos at Edgefield.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bridge carries a minor road from Loanhead over the former line, now used as a footpath and cycleway.
©Jim Barton
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©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The route of the old Loanhead to Monktonhall railway line, here tarmaced as far as the bridge under the A720 by-pass. Beyond here the trackbed is grass or gravel.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Graffiti galore as the old railway passes under the City of Edinburgh Bypass (A720) near Straiton, Midlothian.
©Lee Kindness
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Local Nature Reserve in an unlikely spot hard by the A720 Edinburgh City By-Pass, on reclaimed industrial land and managed by Midlothian Ranger Service.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Local Nature Reserve in an unlikely spot hard by the A720 Edinburgh City By-Pass, on reclaimed industrial land and managed by Midlothian Ranger Service. The coot is paying no notice to the heavy traffic passing nearby.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Local Nature Reserve in an unlikely spot hard by the A720 Edinburgh City By-Pass, on reclaimed industrial land and managed by Midlothian Ranger Service. Here we see the Pentland Hills to the SW and apart from the electricity pylons, from this scene it's difficult to imagine the proximity of busy roads and a capital city.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.6km<br/>By the cycleway and footpath on the former railway line on a frosty morning.
©Jim Barton
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km<br/>A noisy flock of rooks in the farmland near Loanhead with the grain silos at Edgefield beyond; an interesting contrast to the traffic around Straiton retail park just to the west.
©Jim Barton

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