Many walkers and cyclists will know the Drumburgh area as one of the points on the Hadrian’s Wall walk or cycle trails in Cumbria.
A75: Powfoot by the Solway coast
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August 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
This week we have travelled a further 10 miles west and arrived at the sea. Powfoot is one of those villages where you would not visit unless you had a reason.
Daffodils, workmen and a quick walk
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March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dodging the rain today we escaped the house for a quick walk around Victoria park in Carlisle. One good thing is that so far we have not seen anything of the snow that was promised by the weather people. Parts of our park had an unusual smell today, emitted by some plants which mum said [...]
We visit Isel and Cockermouth
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February 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In the words of the Rogers / Hammerstein song ‘ Oh what a beautiful morning’ and what a great day it has turned out to be as we left the city behind and headed in a south-westerly direction for the hills. Mum had a grand plan for today with a mission to find a carpet [...]
Remembrance and fireworks
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November 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
After many nights of being scared by the bangs and pops of fireworks we ventured outside this afternoon for a walk to stretch our legs a bit. With big grey clouds on the horizon, we took a short car journey towards the town and our usual walking venue of Bitts Park. Last night the annual [...]
Silloth RNLI lifeboat launched
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August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Never believe the weather forecast, for today it suggested that it was going to rain just after lunch and as yet, not a drop of liquid sunshine. Overnight it rained very hard, so most walks through the woods or forests were ruled out as mum didn’t want us to get too dirty, so we decided [...]
We go in search of the Penrith Beacon …
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July 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We head south on the A6 to the large town of Penrith in search of the Penrith Beacon. As we entered the town, we turned left and parked just beyond the Beacon Edge Cemetery under a tree to keep the car a bit cool for our return. Before we left home dad had looked on [...]
Lochmaben in Scotland is our destination …
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July 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Scotland is our destination on this adventure and it is to the small town of Lochmaben where we end up. Our journey takes us up the new M6 extension through the area previously known as the Cumberland gap and onto the A74(m). We waited until the middle of the afternoon to venture out so the [...]
We visit Allonby on the Solway Coast, Cumbria
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July 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Earlier today we headed west to Allonby on the coast of Cumbria just south of Silloth. Our approach to the area was met with a bit of rain, however once the car was parked the sun came out. Stretched out before us was plenty of grass to run on so we took full advantage to [...]
We get involved in a world record attempt.
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March 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What a busy weekend we have had. We have already mentioned our inspection of the flood defences and the works going on at a nearby garden but we also got involved in a world record attempt. Towards the end of last week we got a message from the Britglyph project who are trying to recreate [...]
