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Straiton Pond is a Local Nature Reserve on reclaimed industrial land next to the busy A720 Edinburgh City By-Pass. Here is one access point opposite McDonald's on the edge of the retail park.
©Jim Barton
©Tom Richardson
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©james denham
Dist:0.2km<br/>At the Edinburgh to Penicuik road.
©james denham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Windswept car park.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Tin shed strip mall, just like the one outside the nearest big town to you. The sheds are getting rather tatty, and the trolley stands rusty. -- 2012 It is looking a little tidier now. MFI went bust and a new retailer is in that shed.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Even somewhere as grim as a drive in tinshed shopping centre can be enlivened by a few weeds. Opportunistic plants putting on a summer display on disturbed land next to the carpark. This was once the site of a colliery, but is now handily placed beside the Edinburgh bypass. There is also a familiar big blue/yellow box here, but it is shared with the square next door.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Although the map and some signs name this facility as the Peel Pentland Centre, it's popularly known as the Straiton Retail Park, confirmed in this photo.
©Mary and Angus Hogg
Dist:0.2km<br/>Not much in the way of custom today, the car park pretty well empty and I was only there due to the necessity of getting a bulb for the car. A corbie awaits his cut.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>The units at the far end of this block are being modernised.
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Although these out-of-town shopping centres are heavily focused on private car access, they also cater for pedestrians arriving by bus.
©Mary and Angus Hogg
Dist:0.2km<br/>A drill in an enclosed area of what was the car park.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed from the pedestrian access to the new retail park, with the original roadside buildings in the background.
©Mary and Angus Hogg
Dist:0.3km<br/>Off the A701 Edinburgh-Penicuik road, just to the south of the A720 Edinburgh City By-Pass, and very handy for the Straiton Retail Park.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<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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