The Pineapple House, Dunmore House and park and Elphinstone Tower

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Mon 3 Jun 2024 7:00pm

This is a woodland and nature reserve with the buildings as added interest. It is near the Village of Airth. Access is by a rough, narrow potholed road of approximately a mile but this takes you to a parking area at the Pineapple building. From there around a 5 minute walk to the Pineapple passable with a mobility scooter. John and I spent an afternoon checking it out. Elphinstone Tower is roughly a 20 min walk on hard packed track. Negotiable with care on a mobility scooter. Hower its 5 mins through rough grass to get to it, although possible to get photographs from the path. There is a hard packed field edge that takes you to it also but this is steeper and again rough grass to cover. You can get photos from the field edge. We walked to Dunmore house but it is quite a walk. My suggestion would be to Photograph the Pineapple then take the cars to the main road and come up the farm track. Access is blocked by gates but I spoke to the girl in the cottage and explained what we were doing so she gave me her phone number and said they would unlatch the gates. This would enable cars to get up to the area and park. there are two grand houses/ buildings and old barns and stables in a derelict and semi derelict state. Nature is taking over. However I thought this was an intersting area for photos. Access is possible with a mobility scooter. I will put more info on the dark room page as when I tried to do this I lost what I had written. Also on this occasion, due to restrictions I would suggest we take as few cars as possible.

Crofthead Farm Community Education Centre, Crofthead Centre, Templar Rise,
Dedridge
Livingston
EH54 6DG