Skateraw (East Lothian)

Part of the John Muir Way runs along a walkway along the seawall protecting the power station.

[6] In the 1930s, the minister of the Canongate church in Edinburgh, Reverend Ronald Selby Wright, ran a club for the poor boys living in the parish.

[7] Skateraw is located in an area which has rich limestone deposits, currently being exploited by the nearby Lafarge Cement Works at Whitesands.

Any plants living here must also be able to tolerate some salinity as these coastal grasslands can be subject to regular onshore gales from the North Sea.

These factors lead to a specific habitat and there are several species which are unique to this area within East Lothian, such as Autumn gentian, white horehound and yellow-horned poppy.