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The walk
Distance: 3.35km
Total Ascent: 23m
Estimated Time: 1hr
A route through Torrance’s Fairy Glen and Woodmill Park. This circular walk includes some uneven surfaces on paths and a gate, as well as a short descent on a road without pavements.
Online Route available here
Start here!
1.
Head north out of Woodmill Park along the wee footpath and turn left onto Campsie Road.
2.
Take the first right up Kelvindale. (You can take a wee detour into the Torrance Demonstration and Ornamental Garden along the green metal fence and through the gate!)
4.
Cross School Road and into the Torrance Community Centre car park. Go through a gap in the stone wall to your left and cross the field in West Acre Park.
3.
As the road bears right you will see a footpath on your left, head up here.
5.
Go through the gate directly in front of you, down the steps and turn right onto West Balgrochan Road. Walk straight up the road until it bears right.
6.
Take the lane on the left (Wardend Road). Follow the lane until it becomes a footpath. This will lead you through Fairy Glen and down over a wee bridge. The footpath then bear up and right until you come to a gate.
8.
Follow Allander Drive until the right takes a sharp right. Before this there is a footpath on your left, follow it as it bears right onto Forth Road. Carry on straight along Forth Road.
7.
Go through the gate and turn left onto Tower Road. Follow the road downwards until you reach the housing estate.
Turn left into the housing estate on Allander Drive.
9.
When you reach a hedge and row of trees, turn left onto the footpath. Follow the footpath until you cross a wooden bridge and turn left.
When the footpath forks, take the right fork and follow until you reach a residential road.
10.
You will see a large roundabout ahead to your right. Cross over this and head up the footpath in the gap in the bushes. Walk up the footpath, and cross Main Street.
11.
Cross over the wee square and down the footpath in the back left corner. Follow this footpath back to the car park at Woodmill Park. Be sure you check out the Woodmill Park Fairy Woods, the entrance is just opposite the bench!