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.

 

Drumburgh Walk with Mike and Charlie

Our walk today started in Drumburgh on the Cumbria Solway coast. The first half of the walk followed the Hadrians Wall Path along the Vallum. It is about 6 weeks since Mike, Charlie, and I had walked together so it was nice to enjoy their good company again.

The path took us through several fields

The crops planted in late autumn for harvesting in early summer have been badly hit by the winter rains and there are lots of bare patches in the fields of Barley or it may be that this is seed planted again in the spring after the crop failed and it will be harvested much later. 

A nice path at the edge of the field. We passed several walkers doing the Hadrians Wall path from west to east.

The hedgerows were full of blossom and especially wild Rose which was prolific and spectacular. 

Mike and Charlie crossing a narrow bridge

Drumburgh Castle in the background and the start and finish of our walk.

This is a self service cafe called the La’ll Bite which has an honesty box. It was excellent with a variety of drinks we could make ourself and fruit and tray bakes. There were nice seats inside and outside and a toilet if we needed it. A most enjoyable 4.7 mile walk despite the two very heavy showers of rain.