Walking in the Pentland Hills

Walk 14

Paragraphs 5 and 6

Paragraph 5 should now read:

The Covenanter’s Grave can be tricky to locate. From the main track a wooden crossroads sign at NT082515 indicates Crosswood via the Covenanter’s Grave. Ascend up through the heather and grass towards a line of tall wooden sight posts on the brow of the hill.

IGNORE THIS original wording for paragraph 6 AND USE NEW ROUTE BELOW– Head back along the track, crossing Medwin Water and with the trees surrounding Medwynhead on your right. Go past the end of a plantation and leave the track just beyond a gate. Pick up a faint ATV track and cross boggy ground around the periphery of the fence until you reach a track going due south to the trees atLocket Gate Wood(see OS 344).

Keep on this track as it goes left past another small wood. At the buildings at Medwynhead keep left through the farm steading and come out opposite a lake. From the lake take a track that goes to the left, uphill alongside yet another conifer plantation.

New paragraph 6 route – From the crossroads sign adjacent to the track, follow the indicator directing you south east to Dolphinton via Garvald. There is a line of guideposts across the heather and in places boggy ground. The path becomes faint and can be difficult to locate but chose a line between the posts. The path follows the burn to your right and you’ll eventually reach another signpost. Go through the gate next to the signpost following the sign to Dolphinton and West Linton. After a few metres go right at the next waymarker and cross a wooden footbridge. From here follow the waymarkers to Garvald Home Farm. At the signpost follow the indicator to West Linton 4 miles.

Take the track going between two stone pillars. When the track divides, go straight along between another pair of stone pillars with the name Ferniehaugh.

Walk up the track to a small lake and keep heading uphill to the north of a conifer plantation.