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This is the fate hanging over a few woods around Edinburgh. Wooded land on the edge of the Mortonhall Estate has been developed for expensive houses.
©Richard Webb
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Grassed-over cairn at the summit of Galachlaw a low hill by Fairmilehead. Houses on Galachlawside visible through the trees.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.3km<br/>Mature trees by the summit of Galachlaw.
©Callum Black
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A quiet residential cul-de-sac off Mounthooly Loan.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>View of the policies of Mortonhall from the edge of a new housing development. There is a mix of gardens, woods and arable land here and one of Edinburgh's less well known "parks".
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>One of Edinburgh's many private members' golf clubs.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Unripe wheat in the foreground, cottages and remains of a walled garden in the trees beyond.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A pleasant grassy path running between hedgerow trees and a wheat field.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.4km<br/>A quiet cul-de-sac near Fairmilehead in the south side of Edinburgh.
©james denham
Dist:0.4km<br/>Footpath leading through the Mortonhall estate. The name comes from a, now vanished, hamlet which lay nearby Mortonhall House. A popular route for horse riders from the nearby Meadowhead stables.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.5km<br/>Cottages sitting by a now disused walled garden. Viewed from Mounthooly Loan.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.5km<br/>Mature trees by the path that runs south of the Mortonhall Golf Course and into the Mortonhall estate. The woods look more extensive than they are - Buckstone lies just beyond the trees.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking southeast, January 2010.
©Allister Combe

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