WLGS 45 Linhouse Water–Calderwood 1 [NT 0790 6705] (Figure 148)

WLC site description

Part of the Quartz-dolerite sills and dykes group of sites

Other designations: B-SSSI (Calderwood); AGLV; LWS (Linhouse Water); CP (Almondell and Calder); AWI (Calder Wood); SNWI

At this locality in the Linhouse Water between Mid and East Calder, a quartz-dolerite dyke intruding the Gullane Formation forms a small (~1 m), but obvious waterfall in the river. For details of the Calderwood biological SSSI, see section 3.4.9.2.

(Figure 148) Exposure of a quartz-dolerite dyke in the Linhouse Water at Linhouse Water — Calderwood 1 [NT 0790 6705] (WLGS 45).