{"id":31,"date":"2015-12-11T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanston.sbp-creative-dev.co.uk\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2023-02-07T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:57:27","slug":"walking-paths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swanston.co.uk\/activities\/walking-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walking Paths<\/h2>\n

Flat tracks and woodland paths skirt around the farm and offer an easy meander or a quick dog walk, suitable even for children and bicycles. For those looking for something more challenging, the hillside tracks lead you up past the historic thatched cottages of Swanston Village and quickly up into the hill above the Farm, already presenting a stunning vista of Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Firth of Forth. From here, the heights of the peaks beckon via several paths or walkers and bikers can follow the trail around the hill, no doubt encountering our herd of Highland Cows, who graze the hills around the farm. They will blink their lovely long eyelashes at you with mild curiosity as you go by.<\/p>\n

On a gentle, calm day, paragliders are often seen floating above Caerketton, Allermuir, Hillend and Swanston Farm, along with some of our resident birdlife, such as buzzards and skylarks.<\/p>\n

Follow our Way-marking signs to guide you along a variety of different terrains and lengths of walks and see if you can spot some of our resident badgers, foxes, stoats, Black Grouse, Red Kites or Barn Owls. Or identify some of the beautiful array of unusual fungi, lichen and mosses, such as the \u2018Scurfy Deceiver\u2019 and the \u2018Candle-Snuff Fungus\u2019, the \u2018Hairy Curtain Crust\u2019 or the \u2018Witches\u2019 Butter\u2019, \u2018Brunton\u2019s Dog-Tooth\u2019 or the \u2018Big-Shaggy Moss\u2019 as well a wide range of wild flowers and trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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ACTIVITIES<\/h2>\r\n