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Recent Walks
- Yeork-sher: wet boots, mired tyres and abandoned walks
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 5 – moorland, laight, and stane
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 4 – Swans, Gorse and missed turns
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 3 – oh ffs! off piste again
- Mull of Galloway Trail: 2 – trudging over shingle and wading through bracken
- The Mull of Galloway Trail: 1 – overgrown, elusive and unfrequented
- Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp
- Loch Katrine
- Silver Jubilee Road
- Barlay Hill: another Monica
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Tag Archives: Eden Way
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
Eden Way: Ninety-nine steps to Armathwaite Bridge
9.34 miles 5h 24m ascent 240m Wetheral-Armathwaite (Eden Way) Well, that was some walk. The Eden Way Guidebook has Carlisle to Armathwaite as a single day but being <insert jocular self deprecating adjective here> we chose to split it over … Continue reading
Eden Way: Britanniar Regina to Wetheral Cross
7.1 miles 3h 10m ascent 82m Carlisle-Scotby-Wetheral Continuing our Eden Way Walk. Picking up in Carlisle, downstream of which we have walked both banks of the Eden, on the Hadrian’s Wall trail (south bank) and the Cumbrian Coastal Way (north … Continue reading
Eden Way Part 1
5.81 miles 3hr 1min ascent 34m Rockcliff to Esk Boathouse This was the final leg of our Cumbria Coastal Way, heading north from Rockcliffe up to the Esk Boathouse, but also the first part of the Eden Way, from Desmesne … Continue reading
Eden Way Discovered: Rockcliffe to Spa Well
8.07 miles (there and back) 4h 50m ascent 65m Rockcliffe to Spa Well (Cumbria Coastal Way) A beautiful day. Easy walking in riverside meadows, fields and paths. A couple of kissing gates but more often stiles, mostly well constructed with … Continue reading
Cumbria Coastal Continued: 1
7.77 miles (4.01 miles) 3h 53m 79m ascent Rickerby Park-Spa Well Hadrian’s Coastal trail, which we had walked in 2019, follows the old Cumbria Coastal Way from Ravenglass to Bowness where it meets the Hadrian’s Wall Trail. The Cumbria Coastal … Continue reading