A Circular Walk Round Carlisle Airport

I had plotted a 7.5 mile route round Carlisle Airport with the first part of the walk following The Roman Wall. As a result of getting lost in a wood we added at least another 1.5 miles to the distance making it a 9 mile walk. There was a biting north wind during the first part of the walk. The airport is extending its runway and also building a new terminal ready for the start of scheduled passenger services commencing in early June. We intend to book tickets on the first flight to Southend so we can have a walk along Southend Pier.

This is the outer ditch  on the section of the Roman Wall we walked. 

Tom well wrapped up against the wind

Tom and I are competing for the wooly hat prize and Tom wins easily

This wee Shetland Pony was very pleased to see us

And so were these sheep as they came running up to meet us 

Our walk took us past Eden Golf Club which looks to be closed for the winter

This looks like the new Carlisle Airport Terminal being built. Scheduled passenger services commence on Monday 4th June so there is a lot of work still to be done before then. The runway is being extended so it can take larger aircraft. I used Carlisle Airport regularly in my days with Atlas Air and flew every month for a while down to London Heathrow but it was not well supported mainly because it was only an early morning flight down and then a return at 6.00pm. It was much easier to use NCL Airport where they had 6 flights a day to LHR.

Today's route. The wood in the middle of the bottom half was where we got lost for a short time