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Pappert, ALEXANDRIA, G83 9LQ

Ahead, and just visible to the right of the path, is a marker, shown in Image The community woodland contains paths for walkers (not motor bikes and similar vehicles that would quickly turn the paths into a muddy mess). The path shown here runs along the southern side of the Pappert Burn.

This area of woodland, established in 2000, contains over 2 miles of footpaths. The marker visible in this photo stands not far south of a stream; compare some similar markers that are located at the start of a footpath on the other side of the stream: Image

To the left (north) of the path, the ground slopes down steeply to the course of the Pappert Burn. On the right are the houses in Pappert. Further uphill, at the top of the housing estate, the path emerges into the open: Image / Image There is another path running parallel to this one on the other side of the burn: Image The intervening glen of the burn would make it difficult to cross from one path to another at this point, and the other path is best joined either at its downhill end (Image), or much further uphill (near a Image), where the course of the burn is very shallow.

The community woodland was established in 2000. For more information, and for an earlier view in a different season, see Image The trees on the left are at the top of a slope leading down to the Pappert Burn.

This particular clearing is depicted on the 1:25000 OS map. It is in Pappert Well Community Woodland. The hills that can be seen left of centre in the background are Carman Hill (Image) and adjacent muirs.

The gate shown in this photograph is located at one of the three main entry points to Pappert Well Community Woodlands; see also Image The nearer houses beyond the gate are in the Braehead area, while the more distant background houses are in other parts of the Vale of Leven. On the skyline, in the right-hand side of the image, are Carman Hill (Image) and the muirs that lie to its north.

Two different paths lead downhill from the point that is shown in Image; the last part of the more northerly of the two paths is shown here. Both paths lead to this area, at the top of Braehead, where one of the access points of the community woodland is located (as indicated by some markers: Image). See Image for the same view in winter, and for background details.

There are three main entry points to this area of community woodland, with a marker, or markers, at each one. The back of the tallest of these three markers can just be made out, silhouetted against the snow, in the following image: Image (in that image, the markers are located in front of the wooden posts that are to the left of the gate). For the markers at the other two locations, see Image and Image

The picture was taken from about the same spot as Image, but the present view is in the opposite direction (uphill). A burn flows along this part of the route, and at this point it allows a view beneath the vegetation cover: the surface rather resembles crude paving slabs. Whether they date from the period when this was a drove road, or from recent times, I cannot say.

This is a view downhill. To the right (north) are a wall and a fence that form the boundary of an adjacent field. To the left is a mound that is an old wall, mostly overgrown with turf. Just beyond it is the present-day path (Image), which is next to a slope leading down to the Pappert Burn. The present picture is a view along what I take to be the line of the old drove road here. The nearby present-day path closely follows the upper edge of the slope leading down to the Murroch Burn, while the older drove road instead consistently follows the edge of the wall that forms the field boundary. For much of its length (specifically, where the burn is not far from the field boundary), the present-day path follows the same line as the old drove road: see Image for an example. Where the burn meanders farther from the field boundary, the current path and the old drove route diverge, as at the point shown here. A view uphill from the same spot included an area that a burn flows through, exposing some stones to view; I found it tempting to see these as a form of paving, though I cannot tell whether they date from the days of droving, or from more recently: Image