Saturday, August 6, 2011

West of Gordon


This is a short walk but pleasant. Unfortunately the entrance by the railway bridge is overgrown and obviously unused. The walk starts to the left of the old station house going out of Gordon towards Edinburgh. The main road crosses an old bridge. Fortunately there is a gated access just before the bridge opposite and ideal place to park on an extended verge. The walk is interrupted by what I suppose might have been a tunnel, its hard to judge, so one has to walk off track for a while. Just past this there is a secondary walk left which brings one back to the Church in Gordon. Continuing is difficult as again a bit overgrown and it terminate of course where the A6105 crosses the railway as the bridge there was dismantled for the road. There should be a good walk the other way going East, but the owners of the old station house have been quite naughty and closed off access with gates. This is an unfair and bad practice and I am trying to get an understanding from The Borders Council of how legal it really is as these railways were all owned by taxpayers.

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