Route One.
CASTLEWEARY ---> MEG'S HILL ---> LIGHTNING HILL ---> WETHER LAW --->
MILLSTONE EDGE ---> LANGTAE HILL ---> FOOTMAN HASS ---> CAULDCLEUCH
HEAD ---> RETRACE ROUTE TO MILLSTONE EDGE ---> TUDHOPE HILL --->
LITTLE TUDHOPE HILL ---> TRACK DOWN LINHOPE BURN GLEN TO LINHOPE FARM.
Alternative start to Route One:
CASTLEWEARY ---> FOLLOW TRACK HEADING SE TO PHAUP FOREST ---> BEAR
LEFT AT PHAUP (Farm buildings encountered shortly after entering forest)
---> PROCEED TO GRID REF. NT434026 ---> GO NE UP A NARROW FOREST RIDE
(This closes in as you ascend but progress is not severely impeded)
---> EMERGE FROM PLANTATION EAST OF GREATMOOR HILL ---> SKELFHILL PEN
---> WHITE HILL ---> MILLSTONE EDGE ---> Continue walk to Cauldcleuch
Head, etc. as above.
Route Two.
FIDDLETON ---> TRACK VIA EAST FLANK OF CRUDE HILL, WEST FLANK OF BUCHT
KNOWE and NE FLANK OF GLENRIEF RIG TO GRID REF. NY413987 ---> PENANGUS
HOPE ---> CARLIN TOOTH ---> ELLSON FELL ---> CASTLEWINK ---> MARCH
SHANK ---> JOIN HERMITAGE/FIDDLETON ROAD AT GRID REF. NY411969 ---> RTN.
TO FIDDLETON.
Route Three.
BUSH OF EWES ---> BURNGRAINS ---> TRACK UP JOCK'S HOPE AND THACKY SIKE
TO COL BETWEEN BROAD HEAD AND MIDDLE HILL ---> BLACKGRAIN HEIGHT --->
SWINGILL HEIGHT ---> FAW SIDE ---> ST. MARTIN'S HEIGHT ---> RASHIEGRAIN
HEIGHT ---> PIKETHAW HILL ---> EWES DOORS ---> EWENSHOPE FELL --->
WISP HILL ---> MOSSPAUL.
Route Four.
MOSSPAUL ---> WISP HILL ---> EWENSHOPE FELL ---> EWES DOORS ---> PIKE-
THAW HILL ---> FRODAW HEIGHT ---> DAN'S HAGS ---> STIBBIEGILL HEAD --->
STIBBIEGILL KNOWE ---> MEIKLEDALE FARM ---> TRACK TO A7 ROAD/EWES HALL.
Route Five.
UNTHANK FARM ---> TRACK UP UNTHANK BURN AND FORE BURN GLENS TO GRID REF.
NY410948 ---> UNTHANK PIKES ---> CAIRN ON PIKE LAW ---> MID HILL --->
STOCKCLEUCH EDGE ---> TAMOND HEIGHTS ---> GUILE HASS ---> GEORDIE'S
HILL ---> CAREWOOD RIG ---> JOIN HERMITAGE/FIDDLETON ROAD AT GRID REF.
NY438978 ---> LEAVE ROAD JUST WEST OF CAREWOODRIG FARM AND PROCEED TO
TUP KNOWE ---> REJOIN ROAD AT GRID REF. NY412970 ---> FIDDLETON.
All the walks in Section B commence and finish on the A7 Road between Langholm and Teviothead. There is a good bus service between these two places (MacEwen's Coaches No. 195: Carlisle ---> Galashiels). Timing details are published by the Dumfries and Galloway Council in their pamphlet "Bus Times 2: Annandale and Eskdale Area." Copies are available from Langholm Public Library and Town Hall.
Copyright 23rd August 1999 and 19th September 1999:
RICHARD M. STANBROOK,
"Howden,"
18 Drove Road,
Langholm, Dumfriesshire DG13 OJW.