John Irving arrived to spend a couple of days with us on Friday. Its a few months since he was last in Langholm so it was nice to see him and we planned a couple of walks. The first was a 4.5 mile circular walk round St. Bride's Hill which takes you up towards Arrisgill and then over into the next valley to Westwater.
The start and finish of the walk at Wauchope School House.
This is the Forestry Road which takes you down into Westwater
The beautiful new house built up at Shaw by a young Langholm Businessman who has done so well in his contracting Forestry business. It is the perfect site with wonderful views.
The early part of the walk and the road up to Arresgill
This is a Falconry Breeding Centre established fairly recently at Westwater
The Forestry Road that takes you from the Logan water up the hill towards the Westwater Valley
This is the start of the last section of the walk which is on the B7068 road. We were fortunate in that this road is closed at the moment so there was no traffic at all on it.
A view from the highest point up the valley towards Arresgill
The Logan Water on the way up towards Arresgill
The Farmhouse at Westwater
Saturday morning and another walk but this time it was not as clear and sunny as it had been on Friday. Tom joined us and we walked round The Pheasant pens and The Curly Snake
Taking it very carefully down the road from Pathead as the road was very icy underneath a light covering of snow.
Tom and John on the Castleholm which hopefully will soon below to the community. It has been a hectic 36 hours and included dinner at the Eskdale on Friday evening and a visit to The Market at The Buccleuch Centre on Saturday morning.
