A Quick Canonbie Walk Before the Rugby

With Scotland due to play Japan in the World Cup at 2.30pm this afternoon todays walk had to be short local one so Tom and I headed off to Canonbie to do the new walk set up for the Canonbie Day of the Region recently. It is a 5 mile walk covering parts of the Langholm Walks Canonbie Walk. The forecast was for rain at lunch time as well so we planned to be home by 1.00pm and we were. The first part of the walk along by the Dead Nook pool on the Esk shows that there has been a massive rock fall there. The 2 houses at the top may eventually be at some risk. 

There is a lot of forestry work going on along the road to Rowanburnfoot and it has certainly opened up the countryside.

On-going forestry work

By cutting dow the many trees the Viaduct over the River Liddel is shown from a new viewpoint

As we approached Rowanburn along the old railway line I pointed out this field to Tom where in 1962 when the field was not as overgrown as now there was a Cricket Match between Langholm and Rowanburn played. The Langholm team comprising of myself and John Irving plus friends from our class at the school travelled in the train to Canonbie Station and returned by train a few hours later after a very rewarding victory. That was the one and only time cricket was played in Rowanburn.

These Starlings were thinking about going over to Gretna for their regular meeting but maybe it is still too early for them. 

Canonbie Kirk and the end of our very pleasant walk just as the rain started