Guidebook presenting 45 day walks and one long distance route in the Scottish Borders. The day walks cover five areas: the Cheviots, Tweeddale, the Ettrick Hills, Moffat Hills and Manor Hills. The walks are a mixture of high and low level routes and can be fully customised using multiple variants.
The abbeys of Melrose, Dryburgh, Kelso and Jedburgh in the Scottish Bord
Guidebook to The Borders Abbeys Way, a 68 mile circuit in the Scottish Borders, taking in four of Britain's grandest ruined medieval abbeys. Beginning and ending in Tweedbank, the route, which is described over 6 stages, is as rich in history as it is pastoral charm. Relatively flat, it is suitable for people with a moderate level of fitness.
36 walks throughout the national park - coast, Cheviots, Hadrian's Wall
Guidebook to walking in Northumberland. 36 graded walks of 4 to 14 miles, from the beautiful coast with its immense, empty beaches and dramatic, crag-top castles to the remote hills of the Cheviots and Pennines. Includes Hadrian's Wall, Lindisfarne Priory, Kielder, Berwick, Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh Castles and more.
When Alan Hull joined the band Brethren, soon renamed Lindisfarne, in 1968, it was the start of a chequered saga. From their origins in the beat and folk boom of the 1960s to acclaim as a popular UK live act and the successful second album 'Fog on the Tyne', their disbanding, and reunion, Lindisfarne have a history that has lasted over forty ......
In the late 1930s the RAF constructed a new airfield, near the village of Acklington, Northumberland, to train aircrews. With the outbreak of hostilities, it was hastily converted to a fighter station, deploying Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons against German bombers, and continued to host night fighters long after the Battle of Britain was won.
Chillingham-its location not only contributed some of the best archaeology in Northumberland but also a herd of wild white cattle unique in the history of the natural world, immortalised in songs, books, poems, and art. Chillingham castle with its famous and infamous inhabitants have combined to make this an interesting and fascinating tale.
Walk in the footsteps of the notorious border reivers and
discover how they survived centuries of strife and
warfare. 'The Reivers Way' wanders for 150 miles (240
kilometres) through the wildest and most scenic arts of
Northumberland, taking in the North Pennines, Hadrian's
Wall, Tynedale, Redesdale, the Simonside Hills,
Coquetdale, the ......