Start :Ormiston. Centre of village, near market cross.
(S) From the centre of Ormiston (A) and (B) walk East along Main Street, passing the 15th century Mercat Cross (on its traffic island).
(1) Turn right down Cross Loan, then left along Hillview Road. Follow this through fields, to go left at a cross track. This old Pencaitland railway passes behind an imposing modern grain-store, and markers of old mines (photo) to quickly reach an old Y-shaped railway junction.
(2) Branch right to cross the small Puddle Burn, and soon take a footpath to the left. Follow the footpath for 1 km through the sinuous woodland strip.
(3) At the B6355 cross and continue directly ahead. In a further 1⁄4 km, at a junction of paths, continue straight on, along the woodland strip of the Winton Estate.
(4) Follow the path around the edge of the Winton Estate (C). After another 3⁄4 km follow the Estate track as it swings right. Pass a small wooden hut with a circular doorway. Finally exit the Estate woods in a further 1⁄2 km, at a path junction, where a good track leads left to Newtown. Pass cottages on the right to arrive at the Community Hall. Cross the commuter ‘rat run’ of the dreadful B6363, by going left and immediately right to gain the pleasant minor road into Boggs Holding (D).
(5) At the red telephone box (i.e. in 300 m) turn left. After another 200m, and a few paces before reaching the B6363, take the woodland strip to the right. This leads through to another minor road, which you follow left to a road junction and the entrance to Hodges farm.
(6) Walk up towards Hodges farm. Swing right in front of it and onwards past Nursery Wood. Follow the farm track to the left which leads into Butterdean Wood. Almost immediately find a narrow woodland track that traces along the right-hand edge of Butterdean. Soon swing left to follow a streamlet, and then on passing the back of a nursery, Alba Trees, exit the Butterdean plantation over a stile.
(7) Follow the broad avenue along the northern edge of the nursery. At its end your route continues, by and large, on this same Eastward heading all the way to Haddington. On reaching the minor road continue directly ahead for a further 400m. A minor crossroads is reached.
(8) Here head left (temporarily Northwards) for 200m. A footpath (right) allows your to resume your Easterly course for a long stretch, 1.5 km, along the edge of fields and in shelter belts. On emerging onto a minor road, go left passing new houses. Soon turn right, in woods.
(9) A good, well made, track leads (Eastwards once again) towards Letham Mains (E). Keep on ahead. Beyond the Mains, the path basically follows Letham Burn all the way to the outskirts of Haddington.
(10) Just before Clerkington housing estate cross the burn at a small footbridge. Keep ahead, and slightly right, to join a main road.
(11) At this road junction, with the main A6093, bear left towards Haddington. Cross the A6093. Ignore Long Cram to find, sharp right, a broad grassy swath just beyond Acredales. Take this grassy avenue to its close, where a vennel (narrow passage) leads left into a small housing enclave.
Cross Wellside Rd. to pass through yet another vennel and take a footpath that follows around the Northern edge of the playing fields at the back of the Knox Academy.
(12) Ever Eastwards, your route leads on to a vennel, passing St Mary’s Primary School and more playing fields on the right.
(13) At the entrance to Nelson Park turn left (Nelson Park Road) to disgorge into the hubbub of Haddington Town Centre, and the end of Leg 7. (E)
