First Stage of Hadrian's Wall Walk

Another beautiful Wednesday and we headed off to walk the first section of the Hadrian's Wall Walk from Bowness-on-Solway to Burgh by Sands a distance of 8 miles. This will be the third section of this walk we have done in recent weeks. Some of us walked the entire 84 miles in 2004 but I doubt if we could do it in a week these days. 

As we drove to Bowness-on Solway the tide was coming in and in no time at all the estuary was full as the tide came in at a very fast rate. In the distance on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth is Chapelcross Atomic Power Station now decommissioned and without its cooling towers. 

At Port Carlisle which is a mile from the start we met up with an old guy who has a little business going taking photographs of the walkers going past his house in front of this sign he has made. He has details of the distance from there to many places in the world and then displays them on the boards. He was quite a character and we enjoyed a pleasant chat with him. We decided to show Denmark in Western Australia where Niall spends half his year as it is much more exciting than putting Langholm 25 miles. He has a collection box and did quite well out of us.  

And this is our entrepreneur.  

We soon reached the village of Drumburgh where we came upon Drumburgh Castle , a fortified house with an entrance at first-floor level only to make it easy to defend. The stone it is built from was taken from Hadrian's Wall.

If you look hard enough you could possibly see Whita Hill and the Langholm Monument in the distance. Our walk ended at the Greyhound Inn at Burgh by Sands and a very welcome pint.