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9 miles / 14 km

This is a nice walk over two pretty big hills along the farm fields and farms between the three villages Dunlop, Uplawmoor and Neilston. The three villages have their own characters and charms. The landscape is very scenic too. This walk is a surprisingly funny, great walk.

Pretty Hard

This is a long walk. There is no denying that. The first hill between Dunlop and Uplawmoor is not hard. The hill straight up from Uplawmoor towards Neilston is both steep and pretty hard. The views from the top of this 800 feet / 220 meters high viewpoint is excellent. It is one of the better viewpoints in this area. There are a 1 miles / 2 km long grassy, muddy path at the end of this walk just before Neilston. Good shoes and plenty of water are required for this walk.




Train to Dunlop from Glasgow/Barrhead 2 times an hour.

The walk starts from the Dunlop train stop. Take the road, Newmill Road to the right out of Dunlop. The road goes into a left bend and then a right bend. At this, the right bend, continue on the small road that goes straight ahead. The views towards Dunlop and the Isle Of Arran in the distance is good here.




The road continues straight on until a crossroad. Take the road to the right here and then, 100 yards/meters further on, the road signposted Uplawmoor to the left again. The road now rises towards the hill over to Uplawmoor.







After cresting this hill, the road drops down towards a farm. After passing this farm, the road ends up at a crossroad. Take the road to the right towards Uplawmoor. Uplawmoor is a charming little village. At the crossroad in Uplawmoor, take the road to the right again through this village to a bridge at the end. Take the road up to the right, signposted East Uplaw Farm.
The road climbs up this road past a farm and then up another climb to another farm before the final, very steep climb up to the first hilltop.



The road drops a bit down to a small bridge before it climbs past a electric pylon to the top of a hill. At the top of this hill, the road bends around a left corner before the road becomes flat past another farm. The road then bends around to the right and climbs some yards/meters before it crests the final hill. Both the views along the whole climb and from the top here are excellent. This is one of the finer viewpoints in the whole of this area and one to savour. Both Isle Of Arran and Glasgow can be enjoyed from this viewpoint.



The almost vertical drop from this hill to the bottom of the valley is pretty extreme. It is almost worse than the climbs up the other side of the hill.

From the bottom of this valley, there is short, steep climb up to a crossroad. Take the road to the left towards Neilston who can be glimpsed in the far distance at the end of this road. The road descends a bit and then becomes pretty flat to where the road bends tot the right before it descends again to a stream and a bridge.
Just before the bridge, there is a path following this stream to the left.

For those of you wanting to stay on the tarmac road all the way to Neilston, please continue over the bridge and up to the hill to the Neilston - Dunlop road and then the road to the left through Neilston down to the railway station.

This path follows the stream all the way down to an old disused railway bridge (the long disused Neilston to Uplawmoor railway line). Take the path to the left here and then the path over the bridge to the right again. The path climbs a bit up to where the path ends at the top of the Neilston to Dunlop road. Take the road (meaning pavement) to the left down to either the bus stops at the end of the road or the Neilston railway station where this walk ends.

Train from Neilston train station to Glasgow 2 times an hour.
McGill's Bus 3 to Barrhead/Paisley 2 times an hour.
McGill's Bus 66 to Barrhead/Paisley 2 times an hour.