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The land below the Pentlands is mostly pasture. Here lambs graze beneath the Pentland Hills, near Easter Howgate.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Much of this land is part of the Edinburgh Centre for Rural Economy and the Bush Estate, a complex of science based institutes, and the farm is part of the Scottish Agricultural Colleges organisation. The road just in front of the trees at the left is the busy A702 from Edinburgh to West Linton and, eventually the M74.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The remains of one old beech from a shelter belt, between Boghall and Fulford Farms [[1418432]].
©M J Richardson
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>The start of restoration or the beginning of the end?
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Pipeline from the new Glencorse Water Treatment plant. One pipe goes to Fairmilehead and the other to Alnwickhill.
©Graeme Yuill
Dist:0.5km<br/>Farm buildings and workshops at Boghall.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking north towards Boghall, with the slopes of Cartketton Hill beyond.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Information board, at Woodhouselee, about the use of part of the Pentland Hills Regional Park for military training.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Tup lamb and mother at Fulford.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the edge of the Pentland Hills Regional Park near Fulford.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>Boghall Farm is in the valley, beyond the trees. The small wind turbines showed how fickle wind generation can be. One was whirling madly, while the other hardly moved, and was unstable in the direction it faced, due to the local topography affecting the strength and direction of the wind.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>Cattle and sheep pasture, with local low-tension supply and transformer.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.6km<br/>Plenty of trees to study here at the entrance to the Northern Research Station of Forest Research, itself part of the Forestry Commission.
©Adam Ward
Dist:0.6km<br/>A heavily shaded farm road going into the Pentland Hills, with the Boghall Burn in the trees to the right.
©M J Richardson

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