📌 Cammo, City of Edinburgh
★★
Cammo is an old country estate on the west side of Edinburgh, not quite consumed by the city’s expanding suburbs. A few overgrown ruins and an elegant water tower are the sum of its manmade parts, and there are some good views of Edinburgh from areas of higher ground. If you’re not completely sold so far, that’s understandable – but a wander along the neighbouring River Almond adds another dimension, with woodland wildlife and some appealing rapids underneath Grotto Bridge.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish on Cammo Road, Cammo, 5 mi west of Edinburgh Waverley station
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 179749
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.960227,-3.317023
🚌 Bus stops nearby on Queensferry Road (A90)
🚗 Street parking – or estate car park on Cammo Walk, at a different point on the route
📝 Key info
▶ 4 km / 2 mi | ▲ 50 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr
Features: 💧 River Almond; 🌳 Cammo Estate & buildings
⬤ Easy | Clear paths – muddy in places – and short sections of minor road.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – Cramond Brig via River Almond south bank – Grotto Bridge by north bank – Cammo Estate (Cammo House ruins; canal; stables; water tower) – estate car park on Cammo Walk – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Ponies and chickens by Cramond Brig. Grey squirrels, mallard ducks, magpies, robins and tits along the River Almond.
Weather: 8°C and sunny with light winds.
November 2020
