Leaving Ranoldcoup Road Bridge in Darvel, take the steep tree lined country road curving upwards towards Dyke Farm.

Catch your breath at the top and you will be rewarded with views of Darvel nestling in the Valley beneath you. Keep climbing until the path levels off before you enter an attractive wooded area of deciduous and fir, complemented by kissing gates and a bridge crossing over marshy areas. Listen for the rasping call of pheasant and keep your eyes open for weasels, squirrels and deer.

When you reach the concrete road, return to Darvel winding your way down through the magnificent Lanfine Estate with its tree lined avenues. Thomas Brown, Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, inherited this estate in the 1820s and planted many exotic trees and shrubs and large areas of mixed woodland of weeping ash, weeping elm, beech, dogwood, redwood and Spanish chestnuts. The Estate is now in private ownership.

If you wish to extend your walk, take the Changue Road - the 'Mast Road'- which offers alternative road walks to link with the Long Cairn Walk towards Darvel and Loudoun Hill or the Burn Anne Walk to Galston.