Some Wild Land in Bathgate
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Some Wild Land in Bathgate
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 10 Sep 2021
In between the vast new housing delevopment at Wester Inch and Bathgate Golf Course is quite a bit of wild and fairly scrubby land. A vast network of (mostly interlinking) tracks and paths - hugely confusing to everybody except the local dog-walkers - runs through most of it, particularly at the Western end. Up-to-date maps, of all scales, wrongly show a track running through the length of the golf course. In reality these are often just short walkways between holes; to get from the far end of the course to the clubhouse a good few fairways have to be negotiated. Local foragers should note that there were plenty of blackberries available to enjoy at this spot!
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Image Location
Latitude
55.8933
Longitude
-3.632416