HADRIAN'S WALL - BIRDOSWALD TO GILSLAND AND BACK AGAIN

spot game find the butterfly

this is a pretend castle

a Roman building remain at the fort

a corner turret

a gate  into the fort at Birdoswald

a hidden tunnel  in the old bridge

the wall  near Gilsland

turret

this is a long slide in gilsland

route taken

http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/birdoswald-to-gilsland-and-back-again-302342/

walk based on the following web site

http://www.eccp.org.uk/html/great-days-out.html

PDF file of walk

http://www.eccp.org.uk/images/great-days-out/BirdO-Gilsland2.pdf

Local mountain rescue teams

http://www.penrithmrt.org.uk/

http://www.nnpmrt.org.uk/

Birdoswald site's

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/birdoswald-roman-fort-hadrians-wall/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdoswald

http://www.slackhousefarm.co.uk/ great  place to eat and great Cheese at this place !

 Gilsland sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilsland

http://www.gilsland.org.uk/

http://www.laverocks.co.uk/gilslandmag/index.htm

early morning walk at -4c where we stayed Smithfield Cumbria

these are our footprints in the frost

my slippy dance which Evie joined in 

it was freezing that day

we walked along the drive way

a tree stump with mushrooms and fungus on it

route we took
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/early-morning-walk-keepers-cottage-302344/

Link to the cottage where we stayed
http://www.keepers-cottage.co.uk/

solway air museum at carlisle airport , visit to Avro Vulcan B.2 XJ823

this is a  ejector seat 

Blue Streak Exhibit about the testing of the Blue Streak rocket program. -see link at http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafspadeadam/gallery/historyinpictures.cfm

more link's below

a rocket sign DANGER KEEP OUT  from RAF spadeadam see links below

the vulcan 

me going to the vulcan 

I am a radar  operator 

I wonder what this does !

I am in the pilot's  seat ( guess what I am looking for ?)

I am looking for the bomb button , found it !

video from the 3 seats below the two pilots seats - 5 people helped fly this aircraft

English Electric Canberra T4 WE188 pilots seat 

British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 XV259 prototype Cockpit this never flew ! -my mum knows all about this !

useful links -museum is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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http://www.solway-aviation-museum.co.uk/ 

link to museum 

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafspadeadam/gallery/historyinpictures.cfm 

Blue streak rocket pictures 

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafspadeadam/

interesting RAF base !

http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile26937/Avro-Vulcan---XJ823-at-Carlisle-Airport.htm 

pictures of Vulcan from above 

http://www.avrovulcan.org.uk/vulcan_people/35sqn_scampton.htm

history of Vulcan 

http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/659218/avro-vulcan-b2-xj823-50-sqn-landing/like/

pictures of Vulcan  XJ823 flying and  landing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Airport

Carlisle airport background  

http://www.carlisleairport.co.uk/index.htm

Carlisle airport site  

http://www.stobartgroup.co.uk/

Eddie stobart group -link to airport 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Stobart_Ltd.

background to eddie stobart 

Kate my Older sister

Me playing Chess

Leo can crawl well shuffle

Old mines via White Coppice Geology Trail and the Great Hill

this is Waterman's Cottage 

I am standing on a tree ! it looks like a rock but its a old tree trunk !

this is the entrance to the city!  -Here I imagined I was discovering a  long lost city !

I am climbing the wall of the city

waterfall wall  these need climbing

last wall and very very sliiiiiiiiiipy

next to the city mine

in the small mine

a exposed bank of shale ( comment from Dad opposite here evidence of many mine shafts -bell pits  )

looking at the bell pit these are the best so far we have seen

a line of bell pits  going towards the river

standing between to gate posts at Drinkwaters which was used for target practice in WW2!

Great Hill summet  here you can go to Darwin Tower, Winter Hill views all around
 - you can see Preston,Rivington Pike,Blackburn

me relaxing on a stone seat  - 4 miles  one to go !


weather Bright sunshine and cold at start to light rain and cold wind, we saw a lot of people on Great Hill
who did not have the correct kit on  ,
 one asked us near the top of Great Hill if this was Great Hill  , the other two people didn't know either - do not go out without a map and if you carry the map know how to use it!
 Take care on the Hills please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

route we took
http://www.sanoodi.com/routes/white-coppice-mine-hunt-301356/ 5 miles in total

http://www.white-coppice.co.uk/   good site for this area thanks for site update Jed :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hill about the great hill