Walk: Robroyston to Blairhill – Seven Lochs Trail

📌 Millerston, Glasgow
★★

Welcome to the Seven Lochs Wetland Park: Scotland’s biggest heritage and nature park, spanning a vast area to the east of Glasgow‘s urban sprawl. The park encompasses five local nature reserves, a country park and – of course – seven lochs, with dozens of miles of paths spidering out to surrounding residential areas. Each of the lochs has its own access point and parking. If, however, you’d like to get a feel for the whole park in a single day, the official Seven Lochs Trail links four of the main water bodies – Hogganfield Loch, Frankfield Loch, Bishop Loch and Lochend Loch – with long sections of grassland and woodland in between, some more interesting than others. Our modified version adds in two more lochs along with the tourist attraction of Provan Hall, and connects to railway stations at either end to enable a linear walk.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start at Robroyston railway station

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 641681

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.887057,-4.173985

🏁 Finish at Blairhill railway station

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 722656

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.866425,-4.043302

🚆 Roboyston (walk start) / Blairhill (walk finish) | 🚌 Cumbernauld Road (A80) / Avenue End Road junction (walk start) / Blairhill railway station (walk finish)

🚗 Car park at walk start / finish, with fairly frequent trains between the two (change at Glasgow Queen Street)

📝 Key info

▶ 18 km / 11 mi | ▲ 130 m | ⌛ 4.5-5.5 hr

Features: 💧 Hogganfield Loch; 💧 Frankfield Loch; 🏰 Provan Hall ★★; 🌳 Auchinlea Park; 💧 Bishop Loch; 💧 Lochend Loch; 💧 Woodend Loch

⬤ Easy | Clear paths & pavements throughout, mostly gentle gradients. Route not always well signposted – navigation skills useful.

➡️ Eastbound linear walk: start – Hogganfield Loch – Frankfield Loch – Provan Hall – Auchinlea Park – Bishop Loch – Lochend Loch – Woodend Loch – finish. Official trail leaflet (route not identical to ours): 🔗 sevenlochs.org

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: A fox, grey squirrels, a pair of buzzards, magpies, crows, goldfinches, other small birds. On the lochs: mute swans, greylag geese, Canada geese, cormorants, goosanders, tufted ducks, moorhens, various gulls.

Weather: Sunny with scattered clouds, 6°C but rising a few degrees.

October 2025