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- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
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- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- O’er Burnswark Hill, we cheerily roam’d
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Author Archives: drow 'n smirr
The Flow
Sometimes the best walks are those you know well but it takes a little effort to see the things that you have walked past so many times. A whisky tasting the previous evening meant that my walk needed to start … Continue reading
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Glen Ness and the (5 year) old Fort
3.2 miles 1 h 55m 150m ascent Ness Glen – Glessel Hill A shorter walk than I had planned since there were sheep aplenty on the hills and the dogs had to be kept on leads for much of the … Continue reading
Beyond yon hills where Stinsiar flows
4.8 miles 3h 48m ascent 222m Peden’s Hut-Shiel Hill-Cornish Loch-Cornish Hill Beyond yon hills where Stinsiar* flows, ‘mang muirs and mosses many… By Girvan’s fairy-haunted stream, The birdies flit on wanton wing; While bank and brae are clothed in green, … Continue reading
The Glen of the Yews
5.8 miles 3h 10m ascent 285m “I was born on Sunday, the 22d of October 1775, (I ascertained these points in 1805,— I did not exactly know my age in 1794) and baptized a fortnight after, on Tuesday 7th November … Continue reading
Bainloch Hill
2.2 miles 1h 48m ascent 219m (Bainloch Hill 287m) Bainloch Hill is said to take its name from bàin loch, white loch, but I don’t find that convincing. There is a White Loch a couple of miles away below Barcloy … Continue reading
Barrs Hill Fort
3.7 miles 1h 38m ascent 165m (Barrs Hill 218m) Barrs Hill is one of the many “twice named” hills. Barr generally means the summit of a hill, but in SW Scotland tends just to mean “hill”, so it is Hills … Continue reading
“Always something there to remind me”
About 2.5 miles “Galloway’s coral is at Borron Point, north of Southerness. You get to it (if the tide’s not too high) along a mile of rocky shore from the car park at Powillimount. On the way you pass the … Continue reading
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Assembling on Pibble Hill
2.7 miles 1h 42m 230m ascent Bad weather was forecast with very low cloud so I headed for Pibble Hill, a wee 383m Marilyn near the Clints of Dromore. Most descriptions of walks up this hill come from the Corse … Continue reading