Walking Networks

Alderston House in decline

From a subset of the sample data presented here, I thought it would be interesting to extract the postcodes of respondents and merge them with the favourite places dataset (using a lookup in excel) and then process the shortest distance to favourite places in the locality using these great little tools: https://www.doogal.co.uk/BatchGeocoding and https://www.doogal.co.uk/DrivingDistances created…

John Muir Way & Link Guide

John Muir Way

There are a number of useful local guides, created some time ago, and of course the up to date official guide. Local Guides John Muir Way & Link Guide JMW Fisherrow to Cockenzie JMW Cockenzie to Aberlady JMW Aberlady to North Berwick JMW North Berwick to Dunbar JM Link: Dunbar-Cockburnspath Official Guides from the JMW…

Local One Page Guides

ELCV have produced a great list of local one page guides. Twenty eight of them. They are reproduced in a single download for convenience. All 28 local guides in 1 document Links to the original single page guides (ELCV) Aberlady to Gullane (JMW) Bolton to Haddington Dirleton and Yellowcraig Circular Dunbar’s Cliff Top Trail Dunglass…

Download Core Paths by Map Square

Skateraw at its invitingly boring best - car camper free

There are a couple of official sources. The ELC Website and the ELVC website. I thought it would be useful though to combine each of the map squares into a single document. The earlier presentations from 2015 were based on the old premium topo. The recent ones now use the new OS standard (to my…

Core Paths

There are many miles of so-called core paths in the council area. Core paths are numbered by section and are afforded some protection against their arbitrary closure. They may benefit from substantial efforts (by up to 300 or so ELCV volunteers) to maintain them and would be eligible for a variety of improvement grants. If…

Hand made – locally sourced …

Thornton Loch to Bilsdean

Well not quite, I made it using entirely recycled materials however and publicly available sources, mainly because some say that the resources are a little hard to find and arguably some websites are infuriating to use. So, I have amalgamated all of the better ones and tried to present them as far as possible in…