Section B: Mosspaul Heights

The uplands straddling the boundary between Eastern Dumfriesshire and South-Western Roxburghshire.


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.