This walk provides striking changes of scenery from woodland to pasture to moorland and can be varied to suit differing levels of fitness and the time available.

Heading eastwards from Ranoldcoup Road Bridge, walk up the "Bankers" - wooded on one side and pasture on the other- to a farm track leading to Slacks Bridge near Priestland.

Enjoy a tranquil stroll weaving through a narrow strip of woodland bounded by the remains of a dry-stane dyke on one side and the Gower Burn on the other. Along the way, can you recognise oak, birch, alder, thorn, cherry and ash? A mature beech of some 75ft is a prominent feature on this path. Wood anemones, celandines and primroses carpet the walk in April followed by the bluebells in May.

When you leave this path by the meadow gate at Bransfield Bridge, head out on a long walk skirting past moorland where you may be able to spot skylarks and buzzards. Near Loanhead, take a break at the site of the Long Cairn, the longest in Scotland at 335 ft, with a history of some 5,000 years.

This chambered cairn, although robbed and disturbed long ago, held the burial chambers for 5 long dead chieftains. Cross the stepping stones at the Ford over the Tulloch Burn and continue along this road - part of which was the old Edinburgh Road - to link with Loudoun Hill.