Tuesday 10 September 2013

Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Trail Opened Today


The newly-created Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Trail received its first visitors today, when Roger Knox, the Chairman of the Pinkie Cleugh Battlefield Group guided a Walking Tour of the battlefield, under the auspices of East Lothian Archaeology & Local History fortnight.

Their walk started at the first location on the Trail, beside the River Esk in Musselburgh, close to the Roman Bridge, and then continued to Inveresk churchyard (first picture, above), the objective that the English hoped to gain on the day of the battle, 10 September 1547.

The third interpretation board on the Trail is located on the Crookston Road footpath, giving an overview of the still open fields where the main encounter of the battle took place.

The battlefield walk concluded at the final location on the Trail, beside the Battlefield Memorial Stone, off Salter's Road.  In this picture, members of the Old Musselburgh Club are viewing the fourth board on the Trail.

Alister Hadden, the President of the Old Musselburgh Club, together with Alastair Hare, leading the annual comemmoration ceremony for this historic battle.

1 comment:

  1. Great to see how much has been achieved and is planned going forward. Here's trusting the Walk & Re-enactment for 2017 will give a fine fillip ... and that the Walk can be signposted and an APP created, a War Game Board created and more ...

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