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The Reindeer Cave at Green Craig

WALK 3

Hill, moor and wood

Start/Finish Dreghorn car park (NT228679) Distance 7km (including a circuit of the reservoir) Total Ascent 225m Time 2hr Maps Ordnance Survey Landranger 66 or Ordnance Survey Explorer 344

Wooded areas contrast sharply with open hill and moorland. This is a walk of variety, through a mosaic of habitats, with the opportunity to enjoy good views in fine weather.

1 Start from Dreghorn car park, just off the A720 at Dreghorn junction (NT228679). From the car park, go east towards the road entrance that you entered by and take the track that heads towards the hills. There is a signpost: ‘Castlelaw by the Howden Glen, with the co-operation of the landowner’.

Follow this track, which is tarmac in places, passing a copse of trees on a knoll called Chucklie (mistakenly) or Chuckie (correctly) Knowe. (The 1852 OS map shows a quarry here, and ‘chuckie’ is the Scots word for pebble.)

Capital views from the drystone seat commemorating the centenary of World War 1