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Evening traffic passing through the former mining village of Bilston.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.1km<br/>The B7006 leaves the A701 Edinburgh-Penicuik road.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking north along the A701 towards Straiton.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Protest camp trying to hold up the proposed Bilston By-pass. In woods on the edge of Bilston Glen. Camps like this were a common sight in the 1990's and helped prevent/delay several projects. With authoritarian rule and more and more laws being passed aimed at social control, they are becoming a rarer sight.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>A path running away from the A701 beside a field towards the Bilston Burn.
©Derek Harper
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©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>A 19th century Gothic folly in a grassy field...
©Darrin Antrobus
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking northwest from where it crosses Kill Burn, towards the A701 Penicuik Road, with the Pentland Hills [Caerketton and Allermuir] in the distance.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km<br/>A small stream, that disappears about 1km further on, under an extensive restored mining industry landscape, to reappear as the Bilston Burn
©M J Richardson
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©Anthony Parkes
Dist:0.8km<br/>And the Pentland Hills [Caerketton Hill] beyond.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.8km<br/>Sign indicating the start of the path on the B7006 Bilston-Roslin Road at Killburn.
©M J Richardson
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©Darrin Antrobus

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