this secluded glen has been a favourite place of mine for years,even the entrance is kind of hidden (in summer)including the information sign,its managed by the woodland trust and as such although legally you are allowed to cycle through it i keep it low key and only cycle here a couple of times a year,there are also alot of steps you have to get off and carry the bike up or down,the film doesn't show this,it looks like a long nonstop flowing trail!,probably the longest descent is about 20-30 seconds,its an amazing wood,full of ancient oak trees and ferns...
2 deep gulley's join together below a wooden bridge over one of them...
crystal clear water from the lammermuirs flows over the bedrock..
hard to believe your in scotland when here...
but this is what most of the glens would have looked like once before deforestation and take over of non native trees like scyamores,
theres an old bridge,quite substantial for in a small glen...
which has low sides,this was for pack horses,so there packs would clear the sides,the bridge was once of great importance as this was a joining route onto the historic `herring road` from dunbar here in east lothian over the lammermuir hills to lauder (then lauderdale) in the scottish borders,you can see the sunken track here...
you will see in the film i made theres a bridge washed downstream,that crossing is knowen as tinkers leap, i left the wood here and crossed an empty grazing field to join a track down to a hillfarm,passing this old railway goods carraige once used as a shed-proberly for feeding for sheep,theres still lots of these around the hills here but this ones seen better days...
back onto country roads and past one of the best of the many old cast road signs,it has the names of farms on it and distances given to an 8th of a mile,a good reason we shouldnt go metric as we would lose all these old signs!
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