http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: BOrrowstounNESS en Tue, 19 May 2026 10:04:08 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234362 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:20:10 +0000 gembo 234362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hippodrome cinema also must see in the Bo' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234340 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:42:31 +0000 Mandopicker101 234340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@PS - so....you can take the boy out of the dirt, but you can't take the dirt out of the boy? </p> <p>I do find myself idly looking at lumps and bumps in fields as I go past and start noting head-dykes, ha-ha's, random bits of rig etc. Its the being outdoors I miss most... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234335 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:13:01 +0000 PS 234335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Mandopicker1 There's no escape. Once an archaeologist, always an archaeologist. :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234334 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:53:11 +0000 Mandopicker101 234334@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kinneil House is well worth a visit if you can find a day it's open. If nothing else, the Renaissance murals within the 'palace' (sticky-out bit on the north) are really quite stunning. The towers apparently contain fine marble staircases, although Joe Public doesn't usually gain access to those parts of the building.</p> <p>Also worth a look is nearby Kinneil Church- one legend has it that St Serf stood here when he lobbed his staff across the Forth. It duly landed in Culross and the rest is history. There's some fine early 16th century graveslabs. The big tussocky area of ground south of the church is the site of the original village of Kinneil, apparently depopulated by plague and then duly cleared by the Hamilton's who fancied a sweeping vista of open parkland rather than a bunch of Baldrick-a-likes scratching out a living. Said peasants were decamped to a new settlement suitably far away on a headland, which the natives called Borrowstouness (Burgh Town On The Headland). </p> <p>Look carefully on molehills and you can still find fragments of pottery. The broad, gentle depression running westwards through the meadow is the ditch associated with the Antonine Wall (2nd C AD Roman frontier). </p> <p>I confess to a) being a native and b) being a former archaeologist... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234316 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:41:47 +0000 DaveC 234316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Every time I climb up through that House at Bo'ness I think 'Kenneil' too!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-234281 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:16:28 +0000 gembo 234281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kinneil House in Bo'ness has won a Scottish heritage Angel prize, (big house and museum where much of James watt's steam engine work carried out) </p> <p>as has mark Cranston of jetherit for his collection of 2300 different Scottish bricks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152291 Wed, 07 May 2014 09:38:21 +0000 kaputnik 152291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>If by adventurous you mean includes portages.<br /> </em></p> <p>Indeed! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152266 Tue, 06 May 2014 23:21:32 +0000 chdot 152266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"If by adventurous you mean includes portages."</p> <p>Yes, CS doesn't plan a route -</p> <p><a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/40615087" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/40615087</a></p> <p>Dotted line visible. </p> <p>Think there are (still) plans to improve - but more as a walking route than a cycle one. </p> <p>Well worth going that way as part of 'round the Forth, as close as you can get'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152263 Tue, 06 May 2014 23:12:52 +0000 acsimpson 152263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The adventurous route is round the coast to Blackness.</em></p> <p>If by adventurous you mean includes portages. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152253 Tue, 06 May 2014 22:30:17 +0000 crowriver 152253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't forget to pick up some frozen venison at the Beecraigs visitor centre after a wee climb up from 'Lithgae. The deer sometimes peer over the hedge inquisitively. Nice public loos too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152235 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:24:11 +0000 Cyclingmollie 152235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For industrial heritage you'd have to take in Wilsontown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152231 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:19:32 +0000 kaputnik 152231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>All good, lots more good heritage in that area to explore. The adventurous route is round the coast to Blackness. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152228 Tue, 06 May 2014 21:10:57 +0000 amir 152228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any cake? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12764#post-152222 Tue, 06 May 2014 20:40:34 +0000 gembo 152222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has much of interest to the members</p> <p>Steam trains<br /> Iron foundry still? Making manhole covers?<br /> Industrial rev<br /> Bricks<br /> Art Deco ish cinema</p> <p>Then the climb from sea level up to Linlithgow then onwards to the Bathgate alps and torphicen then west to Westfield and Avon bridge and over the top to Blackridge then up to Harthill then higher over the moor to fauldhouse and the col du Climpy up, up to Braehead then down to the carstairs esker, the apple pie bakery Carnwath then home to bed. A boy can dream of such climbs. </p>