Dalkeith Country Park (Kings Drive Walk 1 ) Traditional Cache

Established for George the IV's visit, the King's Drive runs in a sweeping arcd through acres of woods. This, the longest walk, takes us through sycamore and larch plantations to the King’s Gates, a beautiful set of gates, which came from Belgium via Holland Park in London. The Gate House, one of five in the estate, and by far the grandest, was built just before Queen Victoria’s visit here in 1875. It was accessed from the Edinburgh road and Dalkieth Station. Try to imagine this walk without the commercial trees bordering the path, and instead visualise a formal avenue of stately beeches all the way to the Palace, across the magnificent Montagu Bridge.