{"id":3232,"date":"2014-07-22T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2014-07-27T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T17:24:13","slug":"southern-upland-way-the-eastern-marches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/borders\/southern-upland-way-the-eastern-marches\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Upland Way: the Eastern Marches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ESUW\"<\/a>The eastern section of the SUW, from the River Tweed at Yair to the North Sea\u00a0is 50.2 of the SUW\u2019s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 54.1 miles with 2628m ascent. This took us across the\u00a0Tweed three times, over the Lammermuir Hills, and to the\u00a0coastal cliffs overlooking the North Sea.<\/p>\n

The official end of the walk is at the Mercat Cross in Cockburnspath, but 150m short of that is an information shelter that also claims to be the end of the SUW. For me though, the SUW is a coast to coast walk and ended at the coast as I dipped my feet in the water of Cove Harbour.<\/p>\n

The Eastern section of the SUW,\u00a0from the Tweed to the North Sea, took us along riverbanks, through farmland, woodland and finally a cliff top walk. The ruggedness of the west was now long behind us and we found ourselves walking into summer weather. To be honest I lost my SUW mojo a little in the Lammermuirs but after that the end was in our grasp and I got my energy back. At Twinlaw we looked excitedly for our first glimpse of the North Sea and again each time we reached high ground, but we were denied until within a kilometre of coast. We had found one kist but missed two.<\/p>\n

We split this into the following sections:<\/p>\n

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  1. Galashiels to Lauder<\/li>\n
  2. Lauder to Watch Water reservoir<\/li>\n
  3. Watch Water to Abbey St Bathans<\/li>\n
  4. Abbey St Bathans to Cockburnspath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For the previous sections see:\u00a0The Western Marches<\/a>\u00a0and The Middle Marches<\/a><\/p>\n

    For Yair to Gala see Traquair to Galashiels<\/a><\/p>\n

    Galashiels to Lauder<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a015 miles \u00a05h 45m \u00a0682m ascent<\/p>\n

    Easy walking on minor roads, an old Roman road, fields and a riverside stroll.<\/p>\n

    Look out for: The Quin Memorial, The Eildon Hills, kist<\/p>\n

    \"White<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0***************************<\/p>\n

    Lauder to Watch Water reservoir<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a013.6 miles \u00a05h 22m \u00a0ascent 552m<\/p>\n

    Easy walking on minor roads, across fields and over the moors of the Lammermuir Hills on the ancient herring road.<\/p>\n

    Look out for: Thirlestane Castle, the drystane seat at Snawdon, the Herring Road, Twinlaw Cairns, a Kist and possibly a glimpse of the sea.<\/p>\n

    \"Thirlestane<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *****************************<\/p>\n

    Watch Water to Abbey St Bathans<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a010 miles 4h 35m ascent 332m<\/p>\n

    Pleasant walking on minor roads, meadow and a final woodland stroll.<\/p>\n

    Look out for: Ali’s Cairn, views of the Dirrington Laws, Beech woods, Lammermuir Kirk, and the rusty ostrich.<\/p>\n

    \"Whiteadder<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0**********************************<\/p>\n

    Abbey St Bathans to Cockburnspath<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a012 miles 5h 33m \u00a0ascent 414m<\/p>\n

    Straightforward walks on grassy tracks, minor roads and woodland tracks before a final cliff top walk.<\/p>\n

    Look out for: that ostrich again, Whiteburn Cairn, cliff top paraphernalia, THE SEA, Cove Harbour<\/p>\n

    \"Coast<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *************************************<\/p>\n

    Previous: The Middle Marches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The eastern section of the SUW, from the River Tweed at Yair to the North Sea\u00a0is 50.2 of the SUW\u2019s 212 miles, though our journey clocked up 54.1 miles with 2628m ascent. This took us across the\u00a0Tweed three times, over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borders","tag-suw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}