On Wednesday 28th a group of seven Biggar Ramblers completed an interesting walk of seven miles around the seaside town of Musselburgh. Having parked by the River Esk, near the centre of the town, we started by following the river upstream past old mill buildings and out into the countryside. Leaving the river path we walked up into the conservation village of Inveresk, where we visited the National Trust Garden at Inveresk Lodge and the old cemetery at St Michael’s Church with great views along the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh. We left Inveresk, rejoined the river path and walked back to Musselburgh town, where we lunched in parkland alongside the widening river and historic bridges over it. After lunch we followed the river to the estuary and walked along a seawall on land reclaimed from the sea, then inland through a well landscaped country park before returning to the town by Musselburgh Race Course, the oldest in Scotland. An interesting walk around an attractive historic town.
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