The Double Hedges This walk starts at Lennoxtown Memorial Hall and takes you across fields to the Double Hedges, returning along the Strathkelvin Railway path. Distance 3.5 miles (5.5 km) WALK Lennoxtown N There is a small car park by the Memorial Hall. Some on-street parking START from Memorial is available in Chestnut Walk and walkers can park their cars in the Hall, TR along Main Street to Glazert Country House Hotel car park, but please call in and check at by going through next gate (beside war memorial gates (adjacent reception first. The X85 bus service runs from Buchanan Bus Station in big sycamore tree). Ahead you will Glasgow to Campsie Glen, via Lenzie, Kirkintilloch, Milton of Campsie to Co-op). Cross road and SO see the Double Hedges. In winter through gates, uphill towards and Lennoxtown. The X86 service runs between Glasgow and Campsie you can walk through the middle of Glen, via Bishopbriggs, Torrance and Lennoxtown. The Sunday 88C High Church. Bear R as path them, but in summer they become service runs between Glasgow and Campsie Glen, via Bishopbriggs, overgrown so keep them to your R. forks and, keeping R, follow Kirkintilloch, Milton of Campsie and Lennoxtown. path through churchyard to Over stile at end of hedges. Continue top R corner and descend SO and over another stile leading out of field into wood with rhododendron steps. TR (German airman’s This leaflet is published by the Campsie Trails Heritage Group, part of the Lennoxtown bushes growing alongside path. Heritage and Preservation Trust. The local community selected and researched the grave against wall on R) along Follow path as far as vehicle track. routes. Design and typesetting Bob Vickers, cartography Nichola Goodliffe, path to hedge and gate into editorial and project management Cicely Frew. Printed by www.qspprint.co.uk. 5 High Park. TR down track to Campsie Road where TL and continue along All text and overlay route detail copyright © Campsie Trails Heritage Group pavement towards Milton of Campsie. 2010. Photographs copyright © Rena Shirreffs 2010. Base mapping reproduced 1 Through gate and downhill to by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and park gates. TL into North Birbiston database right 2010. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence Number 6 Cross road opposite Valleyfield Road and follow road to end. and SO into Valleyfield. TR and then 100020774. diagonally L to far corner of end Every care has been taken in the preparation of this leaflet. However, the 2 TL up Bencloich Road. house and take path downhill to publisher accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any loss, damage, injury or 3 Near top of road, just after river. Follow path over bridge to join inconvenience sustained or caused as a result of using this leaflet. Bencloich Crescent on L, cross to R Strathkelvin Railway path. and descend narrow steps leading into field. Walk across field, keeping 7 TR along path and follow it to fence on your R. road. Cross road and rejoin path. After crossing second bridge, TR and 4 At ruined house, cross wall by follow path around playing field to going through gate. Continue join Station Road and complete Seven walks in and heading E. Cross back through wall the walk. around the village Clachan of Campsie Lennoxtown nestles in the strath between the magnificent D Lennox Castle When John Lennox Scottish Outdoor Access Code backdrop of the Campsie Fells to the north and the fascinating Kincaid-Lennox succeeded to the From Lennoxtown Memorial Hall Woodhead estates in 1833, he (www.outdooraccess-scotland.com) elevations and depressions of the undulating South Braes. Whether to Clachan of Campsie and back commissioned Glasgow architect David you are a keen walker or just want a leisurely stroll, this beautiful The outdoors is where land managers Hamilton to design and build Lennox via Hole Farm, along flat tracks make a living. It’s the home of valley has something to offer. Castle to replace Woodhead House as and footpaths. Scotland’s diverse wildlife and is the family seat. Work began in 1837 The walks are circular and have been graded according to difficulty: enjoyed by the many people who Distance 4.5 miles (7 km) and was completed in 1841. The live there and visit it. You can Gentle generally undemanding, over flat ground. fortunes of subsequent descendants exercise access rights responsibly N were, however, sadly depleted, resulting Moderate rougher underfoot, there may be a climb. if you: More demanding steep, rough ground. in the sale of the Lennox family estates in 1927. Glasgow Corporation ! Take responsibility for your own The walks start from either Lennoxtown Memorial Hall or the purchased the castle and surrounding actions. Glazert Country House Hotel (see map on back cover), but walkers grounds, and developed a Mental ! Respect people’s privacy and peace can join the routes at any point convenient to them. Note that the Deficiency Hospital which opened in of mind. When close to a house or 1936. Initially the castle was used to paths and tracks are often muddy. There is a public toilet in garden, keep a sensible distance house patients and staff, but eventually from the house, use a path or track Clachan of Campsie. became the nurses’ home. It closed in if there is one, and take extra care at All of the walks follow sections of the Strathkelvin Railway path, 1987, was damaged by fire in May night. 2008 and, despite being a listed which runs between Kirkintilloch and Strathblane following the old ! Help land managers and others to building, is now in an advanced state of railway line. The path is suitable for walkers, cyclists and wheelchair work safely and effectively. Do not disrepair. The hospital closed in 2002. START from Memorial users. To access the path from Lennoxtown Memorial Hall head hinder land management operations E and follow advice from land Hall, head R along along Station Road briefly and then veer L off the road and into the Mealybrae This area is either named after mealy zeolite rock or managers. Respect requests for Station Road briefly and football park. Walk down the side of the pitch, staying parallel to ‘mealy’ meaning lush grass. reasonable limitations on when and then veer L off road and Station Road, until you meet the Strathkelvin Railway path. Either where you can go. into football park. Walk F Red Hills This area was formed by TR here and follow the path through open countryside towards ! Care for your environment. Do not down side of pitch, staying Strathblane or TL and follow the Glazert Water towards Kirkintilloch. the mining of red shale which was disturb wildlife, leave the parallel to Station Road, until used by the local Alum Works. The environment as you find it and works, established in 1805, were an you meet the Strathkelvin different types of minerals, including follow a path or track if there is one. Points of interest important industry in Lennoxtown Railway path. coal, lime, sandstone and slate. The during the 19th century. Long since ! Keep your dog under proper control. A Strathkelvin Railway Path The rocks are of great interest to redundant, the area was eventually Do not take it through fields of 5 To continue route, take 1 TR and follow path until it two-arched stone bridge in Station geologists and are regularly visited by levelled and the Red Hill Dam (also calves and lambs, and dispose of dog Crosshouse Road. Continue through emerges onto road. Cross road and Road is all that remains of the once university students as part of their called the Works Dam as it was the dirt. gate and follow track towards rejoin path. busy station complex that served studies. Blairskaith Quarry (now water supply for the Alum Works) Crosshouse. Lennoxtown. The Blane Valley Railway disused) was dug for lime and is now was filled in. The area now forms the 2 Cross wooden bridge and line opened in 1848 and was an riddled with mountain bike trails. 6 At Crosshouse, bear R and pass Redhills Community Woodland. immediately TR. Follow path extension of the main Glasgow to Hole Farm, Capieston House and alongside burn, around back of Edinburgh line. The line ran from C Crichton’s Cairn The best-known G Red Tub Tearooms Formerly the continue along track to Capieston Key to maps cottages to Haughhead and main Lenzie all the way to Aberfoyle but cairn in the Campsies is Crichton’s, or Crown Inn, the tearooms were opened ruin. road. much of its business was to serve the Creighton’s Cairn. There are various in Clachan of Campsie in 1922 by a Route legends surrounding it. One is that a 7 Cross stile and continue across Lennoxtown printfields. Campsie Glen group of local ladies. Between 1936 Route direction number 1 3 Cross road and into Schoenstatt. 17th-century minister, the Reverend field (keep close to burn on L of field was also served by a railway station. and 1938 the world champion Point of interest Take footpath to R, across bridge, Crichton, climbed to the summit daily, A to avoid dangerously marshy Opened in 1867 it served the flyweight boxer Benny Lynch trained through woodland, across second placing one stone there each time. ground) and out through gate onto increasing number of tourists visiting at the tearooms, attracting thousands Distances are approximate. bridge, through garden and to R up to Another story is that the cairn was a Crow Road. the glen. The line was closed to of visitors to the already popular large wrought iron gates.