Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: November 10, 2025

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

You'll need to dismount and push your bike.

After 40.3 km for 619 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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735 m

Water of Leith Walkway

Highlight • River

Lovely quiet route beside allotments, then a graveyard, then a wooden dell, to the view: river on the right, wood on the left, rail bridge above, road bridge beyond, viaduct above all that

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1.09 km

Slateford Aqueduct

Highlight • Monument

Edinburgh, Union Canal, Lanark Road and Slateford Road Bridge.
The Slateford Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the Water of Leith at Slateford, Edinburgh, Scotland. …

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9.86 km

Cammo House Ruins

Highlight • Monument

Built for John Menzies in 1693, and bequeathed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1975 but, in 1977, the house was torched twice by vandals. ☹️

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15.9 km

Pepper Wood Wildlife Reserve

Nature Reserve

38.1 km

Linlithgow Palace

Highlight • Castle

I can't say how things are now, but in the summer of 2006 it was more or less a ruin that was being worked on. Still it was worth seeing.

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47.6 km

Bailies Muir

Forest

48.0 km

Burn Craigs

Forest

59.9 km

Dowie's Mill Lane Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Best photographed from above the waterfall side by the bench

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60.0 km

Built c.1500, the bridge comprises three arches with massive triangular cutwaters which carry a narrow carriageway between low parapets. It once crossed the division between Edinburgh and West Lothian. The …

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63.7 km

Wester Cinder Path

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

hectic with dog walkers but car free

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69.4 km

Union Canal Bridge, Harrison Road

Highlight • Bridge

Union Canal Bridge Harrison Road - view of the bridge from the Union Canal Towpath

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71.3 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

40.1 km

18.1 km

7.77 km

2.48 km

2.22 km

321 m

240 m

Surfaces

60.2 km

8.78 km

1.55 km

511 m

162 m

< 100 m

Elevation

Highest point (200 m)

Lowest point (20 m)

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