Please note: time of arrival is any time after 16.00 hours * Please advise approximate time of arrival in advance and ask us about keys and access arrangements * You may wish to shop for food en-route to save yourself an extra 6 or 10 mile journey after arrival * Crosswoodhill is on the A70, not the A71 as our West Calder address misleadingly suggests * On arrival, call at our main farmhouse door beside the red gravel. If no reply, a note pinned to this door will enable you to locate your property and we will meet up with you later. 

FROM GLASGOW AIRPORT:    ( which is to the west of the city. ) Follow the signs to take the M8 to Glasgow and then Edinburgh and then follow directions immediately below this: 

FROM GLASGOW CITY: Take the M8 in the direction of Edinburgh, leaving at Junction 4 WHITBURN turn-off. Follow signs for A705, travelling east towards Blackburn, a couple of miles. (NOT Whitburn direction). Once in Blackburn, turn RIGHT and onto B792 marked WEST CALDER. Continue for a few miles, straight ahead, until you pass under a railway bridge and meet a T -Junction at the approach to West Calder. Turn LEFT onto the A71. [ or RIGHT for small food supermarket in main square ]. Very soon, after passing the garage on your right, take the first RIGHT marked B7008. Go straight for 5 miles until you reach the T junction with the A70. Turn RIGHT, travelling in the direction of Carnwath. One mile further on, on a sharp bend in the middle of an avenue of beech trees, you see the first house on the right. Enter through the BLUE GATES. Note: the Crosswoodhill sign on the stone pillar beside the blue gates is not visible from the road. Ring bell of door beside red gravel. 

FROM EDINBURGH AIRPORT:Because the airport is to the west of Edinburgh, you do not want to go into Edinburgh. Instead head west in the Glasgow direction, taking the A8 for less than a mile to a huge roundabout with traffic lights (known as Newbridge roundabout) Take the first left exit at this roundabout. This is signposted as the M8 motorway to Glasgow. Keep on this motorway. The road soon splits. Keep to right lane, heading for Glasgow not Edinburgh. You want to leave at the next junction signposted as Junction 3 for Livingston. As you leave the slip road off the motorway bear immediately left onto another short slip road. This takes you onto the A899 dual carriageway, travelling south through Livingston for a couple of miles or so. Keep going straight, ignoring all slip roads until you reach a large roundabout. Here you want to take the A71 into West Calder,  NOT the A71 for Edinburgh. Therefore take the third exit to your left onto the A71 to West Calder. Carry straight on [ unless needing food provisions in which case at Newpark Roundabout ( easily identifiable with its five copper-topped stone walls) take last exit, follow signs for 1 mile to Almondvale Centre which has a Safeway (& 24 hour petrol station) and a 24 hour Asda food superstore]. On the A71 go for three or four miles past several roundabouts, through Polbeth. Once you go over the railway bridge and pass the Police Station you are almost in West Calder. At this point take the first left, signposted Harburn B7008. Continue up this road for 5 miles, ignoring all junctions until you reach a T Junction with the A70. Turn right here. Crosswoodhill is the first house on your right, one mile further along. The house sign on the stone pillar is not visible from the road.  Enter through blue gates on a sharp bend amidst an avenue of beech trees. Ring bell at door ahead of you beside the red gravel. 

FROM EDINBURGH CITY: A70 towards Lanark. Approx. 10 miles from outskirts, note junction on right, but don't take. (B7008 to West Calder). House is first on right on A70, 1 mile beyond junction, on sharp bend in middle of avenue of old beech trees. Blue gates. Ring door beside red gravel. 

FROM THE SOUTH-WEST:  ( via Lanark or Carnwath.) At top of main street of Carnwath turn left, still on A70 and continue for 8 miles. After a dark green sign "WEST LOTHIAN" with its logo of a viaduct slow down. Yards after the "bend" road sign opposite our farm buildings turn into the lane signposted Crosswoodhill on the left hand side and follow the lawn parallel to road round to the front of the house. If you miss this lane up to the house, at the sharp bend on the A70 turn left through the blue gates.