Walking Through a time Zone on Hadrians Wall

Today's Thursday walk with Mike and Charlie took us to Lanercost Priory where we started our 5 mile walk first of all along the river Irthing and then following the route of Hadrians Wall.

Lanercost Priory

The three intrepid walkers with an average age of 80. It took us two and a quarter hours to cover the 5 miles and we just had one short stop of about 10 minutes, although on the uphill sections we stopped to admire the view several times. 

We saw plenty of Crab Apple trees and this one was laden with apples

More Crab Apples

One of the nice wooden signposts for Hadrians Wall

A very old and unusual tree that has grown on a section of the wall. There are not many places at this part of the Hadrian wall walk that you can actually see the remains of the wall.

Plenty of Sloe Berries

A section of the path where stone flags have been put down to avoid erosion

A lovely farmhouse we passed at the half way point

Mike and Charlie

Many of the small streams leading in to the Irthing River were now almost dry

The same stream a little bit further along

One of the problems on these walks is the maintenance of the stiles and gates. This stile was in a bad way and we had great difficulty getting over it. We had a superb 5 mile walk and ended up having a nice Coffee back at The Buccleuch Centre as the Cafe at Lanercost Abbey was busy.

 

My Favourite Walk from Rockcliffe to Kippford

 

Our cottage in Rockcliffe from the public path going past it

A nice stream I have to cross on the way back to the cottage

A private pier and the causeway to Rough Island 

The Tree of the Year as voted by The Woodland Trust in 2021. It is about 65 years old

Myself at The Tree of the Year

Another view of the Tree of the Year with the beach in front of it made up entirely of shells

This Robin followed me all the way along the coastal path

The only people I met on my walk were these Little People

It was low tide but I will do the same walk later this week at high tide

Eaglets feeding in the Urr estuary

There were loads of Crab Apples on the upper path to Kippford.

A Penton Walk

Tom and I decided that yesterdays Wednesday Walk should only be on road rather than plodding along Lanes or Fields in the mud. We selected a 4 mile circular route at Penton and Nicholforest. This is on the last section of the walk and is called Railway Cottages next to the old Waverley railway line. It is dated N.B.R. 1889.

A view from the road looking toward the Liddell valley

We stated our walk at a Bus Shelter near Crossroads just off the B6318 past the Pentonbridge Inn and a feature of the first half mile was the number of Crab Apple trees in full fruit at the left hand side of the road. We counted a least a dozen and most of the trees had lost their leaves but the Apples remained. 

Nicholforest Parish Church and we had our morning Coffee in the porch of the Church

More Crab Apples

Nicholforest Public Hall and a fine building it is. 

Near a caravan site on the first road section this fellow came to see who we were.

Enjoying a Coffee in the porch of Nicholforest Church

Another of the Alpacas next to the road.

Crab Apples galore

Plenty of long straight sections of road lined with Beech Hedges

Tom views one of the lovely Beech Hedges

Pentonbridge Inn which was not open for lunches but certainly worth a visit another time.

Another view of the lovely Nicholforest Church. We had hoped to dine at Pentonbridge Inn for lunch but they were closed and then the Cafe in Newcastleton was full so we ended up at The Buccleuch Centre and had a lovely lunch served very quickly.