2021-02-15 (Day 046) There's A Thaw On

We're back to Nicolton Road again.  I went for a run this lunchtime, and started by going down Nicolton Road.  After the snow of the past week there is a significant thaw on, and the burn to the left is running fast.  Clearly it has picked up a lot of soil from its bed as the water is a dark brown.  The burn starts in California, where it is called the Gardrum Burn.  As it flows northwards, it comes to this point, the Bethankie Bridge.  This bridge is listed as having a clearance of 6 ft 6 inches, but sat nav systems don't seem to know that.  I've spent many a happy hour watching a hapless van driver cursing the computer systems that sent him down this road which - for him - was impassable.

North of the Bethankie Bridge, the burn is the Gilston Burn.  It flows along the side of Milhall Reservoir, which is in the Grangemouth Golf Club, before going sharply downhill and across the line of the Antonine Wall before it eventually joins the River Avon, which in turn soon flows into the Forth at the mud flats between Grangemouth and Bo'ness.