PEOPLE are invited to learn about the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh at Musselburgh by joining the battlefield trail on Tuesday.

Each year, the Old Musselburgh Club holds a ceremony to mark the battle, which is preceded by a walk to local information boards which form the battlefield trail.

The walk will start at the first information board at the Roman Bridge, which spans the River Esk in Musselburgh, at 11am.

Those taking part will then make their way to the information boards at St Michael’s Church, Crookston Road and the Pinkie Cleugh memorial stone, just off Salters Road, Wallyford, in time for the battle commemoration at 1pm.

This year, the Old Musselburgh Club is marking the 477th anniversary of the battle – one of Scotland’s biggest and bloodiest battles – fought on September 10, 1547, during the War of the Rough Wooing.

It was a battle between Scotland and England led by the Earl of Arran, Regent of Scotland, and the Lord Protector of England, the Duke of Somerset, whose aim was to secure the betrothal of the nine-year-old King Edward VI of England to five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots.

An account of the battle will be given at the commemoration and 10 names of Scottish soldiers slain in the battle will be read out. Flowers are also laid at the memorial stone.

The event is part of East Lothian Archaeology & Heritage Fortnight.