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Recent Walks
- The Flowers of the Forest: Flodden Field
- Bamburgh: royal castle, aviation museum and a sycamore gap
- Lindisfarne
- A wee horseshoe from Langholm
- Torr Point and Red Haven in 24 degrees
- O’er Burnswark Hill, we cheerily roam’d
- Quintinshill and the River Sark
- The Debatable Lands on the King Charles III England Coast Path
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: Annandale Way – Lockerbie variant (part 2)
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: Annandale Way – Lockerbie variant (part 1)
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Category Archives: Cumbria
Eden Way: 10.2 – where the River Eden begins
6.30 miles 3h 53m ascent 247m Thrang-Hellgill Bridge circular And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of … Continue reading
Eden Way: 9 – The Search for Passage
10.85 miles 5h 48m ascent 227m – Eden Way: 9.47 miles 4h 50m ascent 201m – Poetry Path, 1.38 miles 58m ascent 26m Sandford-Kirkby Stephen-Stenkrith This section of the Eden Way took us from Sandford Bridge to Stenkrith Park in … Continue reading
Eden Way: 8 – Appleby-in-Westmorland
8.68 miles 4h 43m ascent 219m Colby-Sandford We had finished the last section a little way off the Eden Way. The closest parking had been where Colby Bridge crosses Hoff Beck, half a mile off the Way. Luckily, a public … Continue reading
Eden Way 7: Satan’s stiles
7.83 miles 4h 5m ascent 117m Temple Sowerby-Colby Bridge Our first Eden Way sortie of 2022, indisposition and inclement weather having delayed us. There was neither deluge nor drama and it was no great distance. But I cannot say it … Continue reading
Eden Valley Daffodil Walk
7.35miles 3h 1m ascent 195m Armathwaite-Old Town-High Hesket-Low Hesket “The initial idea was to create 19 memorial sites throughout the UK (19 being the significant number relating to Covid 19). The sites will provide an eternal living memorial, a focal … Continue reading
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Eden Way: 6 – Red River and Hag Wood
6.93 miles 3h 26m ascent 121m Langwathby-Temple Sowerby (6.4 miles of the Eden Way) The days grew shorter, frost clung to morning windscreens and we were venturing further away with each leg of the Eden Way. So we had decided … Continue reading
Eden Way: Megaliths, ancient and modern
7.89 miles 4h 30m ascent 151m Edenbridge-Edenhall (5.8 miles on the Eden Way) This walk was mostly over fields or through woodland but with some road walking. There were more gates than stiles, what quagmire we found was manageable and … Continue reading
Eden Way: From Vista to Cypher
6.24 miles 3h 7m 184m ascent Armathwaite to Eden Bridge Blue skies and sunshine above, crisp newly fallen golden leaves underfoot. This was as beautiful a day as autumn can muster. This section took us between two eighteenth century bridges, … Continue reading