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Built 1890-95 with additions in 1903, it later became known as Leverndale Hospital. Although a smaller scale hospital continues to function, the buildings pictured (with the exception of the water tower) have been converted for residential... (more)

Some of the old hospital have been sympathetically converted and some new buildings added. Making up a residential estate. The water tower behind this fine building.

For a similar and earlier picture, see NS5162 : Footbridge beside the White Cart Water. On the occasion of the present photo, lower vegetation allowed a better view of the channel of the burn. For a view in the opposite direction, see NS5162 : Footbridge over the Blacksey Burn. On the map, the boundary... (more)

The tower in the far distance is part of the former Hawkhead Asylum, later known as Leverndale Hospital.

The ground falls away to the left (north), the slope leading down to a cycle route beside the White Cart Water. This fence is the boundary that is marked here on the 1:25000 map.

View from the cycleway through one of the occasional gaps in the trees. The river is infested with giant hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum, a notorious invasive with a sap that causes severe burns in ultraviolet light. The plant is a... (more)

Formerly a Lunatic Asylum. Now the old hospital buildings are being converted into modern housing.

The cycle path is on the other side of this strip of woodland.

Hidden behind the trees.