A steep little volcanic hill above the East Lothian coast, topped by an old lookout and a whalebone arch
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You can see North Berwick Law from most of East Lothian — a steep, cone-shaped hill of hard volcanic rock standing on its own behind the town of North Berwick. It is only 187m, and a well-worn path gets you up in under an hour, but the top feels much higher because everything around it is flat: the Firth of Forth, the Bass Rock offshore, the Lammermuir Hills inland. On the summit are the remains of an old lookout post, once used to watch for enemy ships, and an arch made from a whale’s jawbone, though the one there now is a fibreglass replica of the older bones. The John Muir Way passes just below, and Tantallon Castle sits along the coast to the east.
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