Looking back along the Clyde Walkway

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 10 Feb 2006

This photograph was taken on a winter afternoon while following the Clyde Walkway towards Uddingston; this section of the route ascends the slopes of Honeyhill Plantation. The Walkway, as marked on maps, sticks more closely to the course of the River Clyde. However, the flat ground near the river can be extremely marshy and overgrown with reeds, and the route shown here, following the upper margin of a wooded slope, is more often followed instead. The photo shows the view seen when turning back to look along the course of the Walkway. From the heart of Glasgow, to a disused railway viaduct that crosses the River Clyde at Carmyle, the course of the Walkway coincides with Route 75 of the National Cycle Network. However, at the southern end of the viaduct, the Walkway continues over rough fields, while the cycle route follows a different and more easily traversed route through Newton (about 1 km south from here). The two routes join up again at Blantyreferme, about a mile SE of this point.

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