Stirling

Kings Park

King's Park to Cambusbarron

Distance: 3.7 miles/6 kms, Time: 2 hours

Stream A circular walk around Kings Park to Cambusbarron, across fields that are sometimes stocked (please keep dogs under close control and avoid these fields with your dog if lambs or calves are present) and along pavements and well surfaced paths. Some busy road crossings.

Start at the main entrance to the Kings Park. Go through the metal gates, and follow the right hand boundary of the park, across playing fields and picking up a path leading to the golf clubhouse. Exit the park just before reaching the clubhouse, cross the road and continue to the junction at Albert Place. Cross the road and enter the gates to the King’s Knot. The King’s Knot is the remains of formal royal gardens dating from the 17th century.

Go up and over the King’s Knot and continue to the gate in the wall at the far side. Go through the gate, cross the road, turn right and continue to the roundabout at Ballengeich. Go through the gate into the field with the grassy mounds, follow the path around the back and go through a gate into (sometimes stocked) fields. Follow the wall and line of the old mill lade through two fields towards Falleninch Farm.

Go through the metal gate in the corner of the field and walk past the whitewashed cottage. Turn left onto the farm road and up the steps leading onto the A811. Cross the road, turn right, go over the motorway bridge and take the path left signposted to Cambusbarron which goes down some steps and along the edge of a field between two fences. Cross over the stile and continue along the path following along the edge of the Raploch Burn to Hayford Mills. Hayford Mills were built in 1860 and once employed over 1000 people, continuing a long tradition of weaving and spinning in the village. They have now been converted into housing.

Turn left past the mill and then right up the sideof the park, exiting at the far right hand corner up some steps into Cambusbarron. Turn left and then next left down Mill Hill. Continue straight on, the road turns into The Brae and then Northend and leads down to a footbridge over the M9.

Go over the motorway and up steps onto Douglas Terrace. Turn right and walk past St. Thomas cemetery and just before the end of DouglasTerrace, turn left up a side lane, signposted to Dumbarton Road/Victoria Place, which leads into Kings Park. Bear right following the lower path along the perimeter of the park. At the pavilions, exit the park and continue along the perimeter to the main entrance.