St Cuthbert’s Way is a pathway stretching more than 60 miles. Sue Kendrick went for a stroll
As a boy he saw angels carrying the soul of a man into Heaven. As a man he healed the sick and restored the minds of the insane. In death he became a saint and 600 years later he is still remembered in a long distance footpath commemorating the struggles of the early Christian evangelists in what is...
Scotland Expeditions
from Issue 24 published on 05/01/2006
Sir Walter Scott Way is a 93 mile long footpath. Sue Kendrick was among the first to complete it. Here she reports on her amazing journey
The way was long, the wind was cold …”
The Lay of the Last Minstrel is one of Scott’s most famous Border poems and this line describes, with uncanny prescience, the Sir Walter Scott Way, a new long distance footpath stretching from Moffat in the Annandale Valley to Cockburnspath on the east coast.
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Scottish Journeys
from Issue 15 published on 18/7/2004