If you can excuse my bedraggled map, the route here is the sustrans path from Paisley Canal (the cycle path flows out from the train station platform!!) towards Bridge of Weir. About a mile or so before Bridge of Weir, just past Brookfield and a few metres or so past the bridge over the Locher Water, take the ramp down to the country road and follow the orange dotted line on map towards Houston and past Crosslee. The roads here are quiet apart from the main road running through Crosslee. The little lane we want to get on is just at the bus stop after turning right at the roundabout. Take this lane which will join up with Kirk Road and lead you down to Houston.
From Houston, follow dotted orange line past St. Peter's well (in a field) and into the eponymous muddy lane which will take us onto the main road. Turn right onto main road and follow for a few hundred metres past the small row of houses and then take the left lane back into the Renfrewshire Leisure Lanes towards Haddockston. Just follow blue line down to Barscube Hill which you can walk over with bike in tow (and down through Langbank Golf Course) or cycle round. From here, it's all the way down to the station at Langbank.
The damp and mossy Kirk Road. Just look at the life here etched into that wall, or indeed the whorls on those old growth trees.
Houston Kirk with tree and bicycle.
The swagger of Houston House behind the kirk.... Again, some wonderful old trees and plenty of birds inhabiting them.
The forested top of Barochan Hill from near Barscube hill. Once the site of a Roman hillfort, it offers great views across the valley and estuary.
From Langbank Station, the light emerges right on cue.... as we see another trawler, weighed down with cargo, heading into the city.
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