{"id":8958,"date":"2023-02-20T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/?p=8958"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T09:25:42","slug":"silver-jubilee-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/borders\/silver-jubilee-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Jubilee Road – Happy and Glorious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

9.2 miles 3h 37min ascent 344m<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overmenzion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Silver Jubilee Road, which from its name must date back to 1977, was to be a multi-use (vehicles, horses, legs) trail in the beautiful Tweedsmuir hills. There were to be seven stops: Covenanter’s View; Auchenmode Burn; Roebuck’s Leap; Laird’s Cleuch Rigg; Blackcock Knowe; Overmenzion Way; and Fruid Outlook. Each presumably would have had a small car-park, information board and picnic table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Reality is a little different. The route is now a forestry track, closed to ‘unauthorised vehicles’. Its surface is rather muddy in the south-eastern section but looks to have been re-surfaced elsewhere, and quite recently. A logging lorry passed us as we set off on our walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Covenanters View (Talla Reservoir)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately we had drizzle all day so the views were somewhat limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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approaching Auchenmode Burn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lairds Cleuch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unimproved section near Blackcock Knowe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fruid Outlook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The original plan<\/a> for the Tweedsmuir Silver Jubilee Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to go off at a tangent…..the name of the walk took me back to 1977 and the RAF Silver Jubilee review at RAF Finningley. I went to the show with a couple of friends and we decided to go on the Royal day rather than public day which meant climbing the fence. Those were different times when a bunch of teenagers in jeans and T-shirts could find themselves walking through crowds of officers and their wives dressed to the nines without anyone batting an eyelid. I was 16 in 1977. I recall it as a sunny day, but don’t have any photos. There were a f great many fly-pasts saluting the Queen and I particularly remember Jet Provosts in the shape of ’25’. There are photos online<\/a> and I came across a youtube video<\/a> from the event. It gets to the aircraft after 5 minutes or so…the video has a Path\u00e9 News vibe that seems more 1950s than 1970s<\/p>\n\n\n

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9.2 miles 3h 37min ascent 344m The Silver Jubilee Road, which from its name must date back to 1977, was to be a multi-use (vehicles, horses, legs) trail in the beautiful Tweedsmuir hills. There were to be seven stops: Covenanter’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borders","tag-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9532,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screel.co.uk\/walks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}