http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Lymphoy back road between Currie and Balerno en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:19:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320231 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 19:45:20 +0000 ejstubbs 320231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo: Yes, we did see the one hole golf course, and wonder what was going on there. Looks like it's part of someone's garden but I can't help thinking it wold be a bit repetitive for practise. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320226 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 18:24:21 +0000 gembo 320226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice work drnoble, it is never going to be opened again alas </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320224 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:57:06 +0000 drnoble 320224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great thanks gembo. I've changed this to a path and marked it as closed. It can always be updated if it ever gets opened again </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320222 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:31:03 +0000 gembo 320222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@drnoble that do be it yes </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320221 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:24:32 +0000 drnoble 320221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This one? <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.88416&amp;mlon=-3.33645#map=18/55.88416/-3.33645" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.88416&amp;mlon=-3.33645#map=18/55.88416/-3.33645</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320213 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:33:31 +0000 gembo 320213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@drnoble it is a little footbridge over the bavelaw burn just south west of Malleny House. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320212 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:22:52 +0000 drnoble 320212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ejstubbs, @gembo one of the great things about OSM is that you can edit things like closed bridges. Or if you are not sure how to do this, it is easy to leave a note using the second bottom button on the right.</p> <p>I would make the change, but not sure which bridge you are referring to </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320210 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:07:35 +0000 gembo 320210@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ejstubbs, the bridge has been closed for maybe 5 years now. Condemned no less. Shame as was a handy cut through. When it was closed at first there was signage at both ends. As you say, nothing now to indicate the bridge is closed.</p> <p>Lymphoy a little muddy. WoL path from currie to balerno not too bad but much muddier from currie to canal.</p> <p>Did you spot the one hole golf corse has returned at Waulkmill? But tee and green are now astroturf. Fairway still grass. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-320204 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 12:30:06 +0000 ejstubbs 320204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I note that the footbridge is still shown as being present on the OS maps, and on OSM. Which is unhelpful if, like me, you are not 100% familiar with Balerno* and park up in the Bavelaw Road car park planning to cross that bridge at the start of a stroll along the Lymphoy track and back along the WoL walkway. It's not much of a diversion to walk down the hill and come up past the rugby club, but some signage would be helpful (and perhaps allay the rather forbidding appearance of the welded mild steel sheet monstrosity blocking the bridge, which does smack of some of the less welcoming attitudes to people wishing to take their leisure in the countryside that are displayed in other parts of this land.) AIUI Malleny House and the gardens are owned by the NTS. Not sure whether that would include the footbridge: if it did then the NTS are usually pretty good about signage, so perhaps not.</p> <p><em>* I've ridden the Lymphoy track westwards a number of times, but always followed the track up to and through Sawpit Wood to Harlaw Gait, since I go that way to access the reservoirs. On this occasion, however, the missus and I were going for a walk starting in Balerno and I was trying to access the track from an unfamiliar direction. I'll know better in future.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257412 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:02:58 +0000 gembo 257412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lymphoy is private road, everyone wh lives along it has to pay for the surface. The mansion lymphoy house is for sale.</p> <p>Never been an access issue. They did put gates up at the Balerno end but you could one the gates. The gates are down now lying in the scrub beside the road </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257395 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:04:49 +0000 rbrtwtmn 257395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Private Road" no longer recorded as the road name in OSM data (although the name may take a little while to disappear from any maps). Access currently recorded as 'permissive'. Does it need more specific access information? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257387 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:42:21 +0000 ih 257387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks everyone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257380 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:36:20 +0000 gembo 257380@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ih, I fear someone has monkeyed with the signage. The route you took to the closed footbridge is the closed route. The footbridge was in want of repair so instead it was condemned,</p> <p>What is intended is at that point you turn left through saw pit woods. Where you can see the Trush. This is a tree with a bush.</p> <p>At end of saw pit you come out end of cul de sac which you cycle west through and very soon you are at Harlaw Road.</p> <p>The paths through the shelter belts south of Lymphoy are great for walking. Earlier in the year they were dry so we were out there a lot. Saw no one else ever. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257368 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:49:07 +0000 chrisfl 257368@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Think I agree with @Frenchy - think that at the very least "Private" Road needs to be removed as a name from OSM.</p> <p>Looking at the GPS tracks in OSM, it certainly looks like it has been fully navigatable at least at some point in the past. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257367 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:41:33 +0000 Ed1 257367@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think so you can find it on Google map by putting lymphoy stables in search. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257364 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:05:29 +0000 Frenchy 257364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is Lymphoy Road the one called "Private Road" on OSM - <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/55.8876/-3.3251">here</a>? I presume that's a tagging error? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257362 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:51:42 +0000 AKen 257362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you turn downhill towards Malleny House, you'll come out near the entrance to Currie Rugby Club and can then turn back uphill towards the Pentlands. It's only a very short detour compared to going across the footbridge. You don't need to go through the grounds, the first surfaced road on the right you come to is best. The second one, which does lead to Malleny House, is only a very metres further on.</p> <p>Instead of going right and downhill to Malleny, you can go left through Sawpit Wood on a path that comes out at Harlaw Gait. If you're heading for Harlaw, you can then continue up the hill. If you're heading towards Bavelaw, you can continue up the same way but take the wee cut through to Malleny Millgate after about 500m. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257339 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:51:56 +0000 ih 257339@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks @AKen. I got as far as Malleny House, but didn't turn into it (maybe that was my mistake). Straight ahead was a field gate and a sign saying that some footbridge was closed and it directed me between the field and the woods. The sign didn't look very new or temporary. The muddy up-and-down path eventually reached this footbridge which was permanently and robustly blocked. Is this area the 'shelter belts'? Should I have gone through Malleny House gardens? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257336 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:19:42 +0000 AKen 257336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Lymphoy Road is certainly cyclable all the way from Currie to Balerno. I assume the diversion must be temporary. Was there any indication what it was for?</p> <p>There are paths through the shelter belts - from your description I assume these must be where you were diverted to. They are very muddy at the moment due to all the rain but are usually better. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18022#post-257313 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:55:50 +0000 ih 257313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was taking the Lymphoy unmade up road yesterday between Currie and Balerno en route to the Penlands. Both Spokes map and OS show a way through. At Malleny House I took an instructed diversion which soon deteriorated into a very narrow forest path with lots of carry. I eventually got through using my handy machete, but does anyone know if there is a cyclable route that I clearly missed?<br /> Edit: just in case, I don't really own a machete. </p>