This short stroll visits one of the most prominent and popular summits in the Lammermuirs - a gentle rolling hill with a lovely sense of openness, and extensive views of the Lothian coastline. On a clear day you can see from The Cheviot to the Ochils. It's a child-friendly walk with plenty of hares, grouse and livestock to keep wee ones distracted on the ascent. Get them to count the wind turbines too; they'll be at it for a while.
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NT5416664266 Follow the tarmac road uphill past woods and pastures to a gate where the tarmac ends. The route now continues as a gravel farm track, a historic road over the Lammermuirs. Follow it uphill past a rubbly quarry, then continue straight on at a track junction near a cattle shed. The track makes a steady, curving ascent of Lammer Law's north-northeast spur (Threep Law), climbing over open moorland with an expanding vista over the low-lying East Lothian farmland at your back. It then runs above the steep glen of Sting Bank Burn to reach a gate and a notice board about the moorland habitat.
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NT5286061922 Here turn right off the track, where a wooden post marks the start of a little path. The trail leads on across the rolling brow of the hill. Cross a fence at a wooden gate and continue - a little wet underfoot - to Lammer Law's sprawling summit cairn. It's a small hill, but the view is massive.
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NT5235961800 Return to the wooden gate. Here cut left onto another 4WD track (not marked on 1:50000 map) which descends north-northeast onto Lammer Law's northern spur. Stay with this track for about 1km, passing a row of new-looking grouse butts to reach a gate at a fence junction. On the other side of the gate cut right off the track onto a less-defined path. This crosses the east flank of Harehope Hill to make a steady descent off heather moorland back onto grazing pasture.
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NT5280363324 Go through a gate, and head east to another gateway at the junction of two fences. Pick your way steeply down to the Blinkbonny Burn, then cross the water and a fence to pick up a path. This runs through bracken and thistles to rejoin the farm track of stage 1 near the rubbly quarry. Go back the way you came.
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Difficulty: EasyDistance: 4.65 miles (7.48 km)
Total ascent: 301m
Steepest Gradient: 15% (1 in 7)
Time: 2 hours (Walking)
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Start/Finish:Car park near end of public road at Blinkbonny Wood, just beyond Longyester, NT541643
Nearest town:
Haddington
Terrain:
Farm tracks and footpaths, with some moderately rough going on the bracken-swathed lower slopes.
Seasonal variations:
Good for a winter quickie.
Weather and Hill Conditions: mwis: Southern Uplands
Public transport:
Bus from Haddington to Gifford, but after there you're on your own
Maps:
OS Explorer 345 (1:25,000), OS Landranger 66 (1:50,000) Directory Listings:
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Dunbar (0845 22 55 121); Newtongrange (0845 22 55 121); North Berwick (0845 22 55 121)
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