Walk: Meikle Says Law – size isn’t everything

📌 Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian
★★

Meikle Says Law is just about the highest summit in the Lammermuir Hills, and is found at the centre of a vast, heathery plateau. It’s not the most exciting viewpoint – with an extensive windfarm occupying the southern vista – but usually provides solitude. This circuit approaches from the northeast, taking advantage of a high start point on Redstone Rig. The burbling Faseny Water provides scenic interest on the approach, with fences and grouse butts leading the way across otherwise featureless ground for much of the return.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish on minor road at Redstone Rig, 1 mi southeast of B6355 & 6 mi southeast of Gifford

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 613637

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.864599,-2.620393

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Layby – don’t block track junctions

📝 Key info

▶ 11 km / 7 mi | ▲ 300 m | ⌛ 3-4 hr

Features: △ Meikle Says Law (535 m, sub-2000′ Marilyn)

⬤⬤ Moderate to Tough | Excellent track for outward route, but fords Faseny Water several times – first one is unavoidable but the rest can be missed by remaining on the south bank. The energetic may be able to jump across! Intermittent, faint paths / tracks for continuation, then good tracks regained before Easter Lamb Burn.

➡️ Anticlockwise lollipop circuit:: start – Faseny Cottage – Dunside via Faseny Water – Meikle Says Law – Little Says Law – Easter Lamb Burn – Little Collar Law – Faseny Cottage – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Hundreds of red grouse; deer / grouse / hare / rabbit tracks in the snow.

Weather: Mostly sunny with some high cloud, moderate wind. Around freezing with 20 cm lying snow, fairly deep drifts higher up.

December 2022