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Thatched cottages at Swanston village

Continue on the track up to Swanston village, passing the old schoolhouse on the right. The early-18th-century whitewashed thatched cottages are a pretty scene, perhaps more reminiscent of an English village.

There is a bench on either side of the track, one with an inscription to Edwin Muir, the poet and novelist, the other to a former resident, John Roe. Go through the kissing gate ahead and follow the path up among gorse along the side of the golf course – ahead are T Wood and Caerketton screes. (On your left is a stone plinth with a map and information about The Pentland Way; Swanston is one end of the route.) Continue uphill, crossing a stream, and here take the path to the left – passing a drystane seat made in memory of Donald Graham, a member of the Friends of the Pentlands – and go through another kissing gate. Continue further uphill through gorse towards Caerketton.

2 Keep on heading uphill alongside T Wood and the golf course until you reach a SRWS signpost indicating Allermuir (this area is marked on the OS Explorer map as Muilieputchie). Follow the Allermuir path over the knoll to a wet area.