Start : Haddington, town centre (Junction of Court St., High St. and Neilson Park Rd.)
(S) Leave Haddington’s central square, at the junction of Court, Market, and the High Streets, by heading South along Neilson Park Road (public toilets on the right).
(1) At the end do not enter the Park Gates, but take the vennel to the left, quickly bear right along a passageway that doglegs through to Mill Wynd. Go left here and cross at the next junction. Pass through the ornamental gates, with black railings, into the grounds of St Mary’s. Keep straight on, to soon bear slightly left past the church, to exit into The Sands. On arriving at the cylindrical dovecot of Lady Kitty's Garden turn right over the arched, old Nungate Bridge (A).
(2) Once across the R. Tyne take steps down to the left. Briefly follow the river to quickly turn right through a vennel into Tyne Court, exit at the far left. Turn right into St Martin’s Gate. Follow it away from the river and at its end swing right into Bullet Loan. Pass the ruins of St Martins on your left.
(3) At the T-junction go left along Lennox Rd., to soon cross Whittingehame Drive and reach the semi-ornamental West Gates (of the old Amisfield estate) and pass through into the parkland golf course.
(4) Follow the driveway straight on, past the club house. Before the car park keep left (ahead) along a rough track, and follow it to its end. An old walled garden (B) lies to the left. Exit the old estate onto a minor road which you follow left to Abbey Bridge.
(5) Once over the bridge turn left and drop down to the river bank. Proceed downstream for 5 km to East Linton. Having gone under the impressively lofty A1 bridge, and then the old A199 road bridge, you eventually arrive at the back of housing. Here, immediately before arriving at the lattice-worked railway bridge turn left up Distillery Wynd.
(6) At the top turn right along Station Road. Do not enter East Linton but continue along Station Road, over the river Tyne and out along Mill Wynd towards Phantassie. The railway embankment lies parallel on the right. Before the roundabout a marked footpath (which we will follow) leads off to the left. But first go ahead two dozen paces to admire the John Rennie Commemorative baluster (C). Return to the Phantassie footpath which follows a double dogleg right-left-right-left around buildings and leads you to the beehive-shaped Phantassie doocot.
(7) Immediately before the doocot take the right-hand field boundary. This leads to a footbridge bridge over the Tyne. Cross the bridge and follow the John Muir Way downstream. Soon the Way crosses back over the Tyne at a second footbridge. Here the alternative route via a farm shop is recommended*.
(8) However, if following the main route, keep to the edge of the Tyne. Follow the river downstream and after two fields rise up to the minor road at Tyninghame Bridge. Turn right, you may be able to use a footpath in the field alongside the road.
(9) Soon turn left along a quiet lane towards the estuary (D). On reaching the embankment, go right then left to follow alongside the shore beside World War II relics. Keep ahead for 2 km. A bridge crosses a stream. Once over bear slightly right.
(10) A conifer plantation lies to the left, East Links Family Play Park (E) to the right (the lamma love to be fed - ordinary grass suffices). On re-gaining the coast there is a large toilet block on the left, and car parks to the right. From the toilet block, keep ahead along the John Muir Way. Do not bear inland (through fields), nor out to sea (across sands).
(11) On encountering the Biel Water, follow it inland a short distance to cross the footbridge. Walk back alongside the Biel and then carry on along the coast, on a good path, past Seafield Pond (F) and a caravan site. This long, straight section of path ends at Shore Road which you take to the right.
(12) Head inland right up Shore Rd. to the walk end at the bus stops on the main Edinburgh Road (A1087). (E)