Carrington Kirk

The first Sunday of the month sees me leading the Spokes Sunday Ride. The forecast was not that good, heavy rain forecast for the afternoon. So I planned a weird morning ride, with the option to dive back in to Edinburgh should the weather turn for the worse. We dodged the morning showers and ended up at a nice Garden Centre for lunch just east of Bonnyrigg just as dark foreboding clouds covered the sky and rain drops started to fall.

After lunch the skies had cleared considerably, and there was no sign of rain, so we head south out along National Cycle Network route 1 to Carrington, a village built by the Carrington family. They were Quakers, so no alcohol was allowed in the village.

I snapped a picture of the old parish kirk, built in 1711. It closed for worship in 1975 and fell in to disrepair, until the 1980s when the building was bought and converted in to offices by a graphic design consultancy.