Walk 273 - Mortonhall - 15 March

 Spotting a fine gap in the weather twenty-five Strollers met at the Stable Bar at Mortonhall to walk round parts of the Mortonhall estate.

The estate used to cover the site from Braid Road to Kaimes and over to Old Pentland. The main house is now flats and the Buckstone estate as well as a caravan park. The Braids and Mortonhall golf courses now also occupy a lot of the space. We walked up the path to Mounthooly passing the old walled garden. From there we went down Mounthooly to cross Frogston Road and to look at the old dower house of Morton and the Belvedere in its grounds. This was used as a view point and for picnics.  

We then followed the old roads round the edge of the estate following the Burdiehouse Burn, and parallel to the  bypass looking over to Old Pentland. Unfortunately the path at this point had started to thaw out so it was a case of avoiding the puddles and trying not to slip. Unfortunately one of the group failed to master the technique and went for a slide. Luckily only their pride was hurt.

We continued on to Broomhills Road now flanked by all the new housing built between it and Burdihouse Road. There are also plans in place to build houses on the fields where we were passing so this was probably the last opportunity to see the land in it’s current form.

We then crossed over Frogston Road making our way back to the Mortonhall Garden centre and the end of the walk.  

 

Our thanks to Drew for the walk and the good overhead weather.

 

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