Linlithgow won the “town” category in the 2018 Britain in Bloom UK finals, and retained its “Gold” accolade in 2022.
The Floral Trails consist of three routes with numbered or lettered points of interest.
One is a walking route round the town centre. The other two are routes suitable for driving or walking which pass, or lead to, the main floral features elsewhere in the town.
The circular ‘Central Area Floral Trail’ (pages 3 to 12 in the booklet) starts at the Union Canal Basin and extends to around 2 miles/3 kilometres. The points of interest are numbered according to the route map on the opposite page.
The ‘Outer Linlithgow Floral Trails’ (pages 13 to 17 in the booklet) provide a circular route round Springfield at the east end of the town (about 2 miles/3 kilometres) and a linear route exploring the areas to the south and west (almost 3 miles/5 kilometres). Their routes are shown on the maps on pages 13 and 15.
The Floral Trails booklet, published separately by Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow. It describes walking and driving routes to view the best of the town’s floral displays.
The town’s public floral displays are entirely the work of Burgh Beautiful volunteers and partners. The project is financed by the town’s residents, groups, organisations and businesses.
About the Linlithgow Floral Trails
Extract from booklet….
The booklet gives a guide to floral displays in the summer of 2023. However, we take our gardening and environmental work seriously throughout the year. Nearly all our hanging baskets, planters and flower beds provide a show of colour throughout the winter and especially in the spring when, in addition, swathes of spring bulbs enhance many parts of the town, most notably along Blackness Road.
Go round the Floral Trails at any time of year and you are guaranteed not to be disappointed! Flowers such as polyanthus, pansies, bellis and wallflower are prominent over the winter, joined by hosts of daffodils, crocuses and tulips in the spring. If the weather is cold, we have plenty of cafes and pubs to warm you up on a chilly day, providing drinks, snacks and hearty meals!
© 2023 – Linlithgow Burgh Trust (Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow).
Photographs by John Buckley, Susan Bundock, Crawford Flint, Alasdair Gow, Kathy Lindsay, Chris Long. Diana Marchant, Helen Morrison, David Robertson, Ron Smith, Gavin Stewart and Simon Whitworth. Booklet designed by Ron Smith.
Maps prepared with the kind assistance of John Aitken.
