Route One.
TEVIOTHEAD ---> FALNASH ---> LAIRHOPE ---> FOREST TRACK TO GRID REF.
NT363063 ---> PATH (faint)/FOREST RIDE TO HOWPASLEY ---> CRAIK --->
ROMAN ROAD (course of)/TRACK TO CRAIK HILL CROSS ---> FOREST RIDE
DESCENDING SSE FROM GRID REF. NT301044 TO TRACK ---> FOLLOW TRACK
SSW TO RAEBURNHEAD ---> TRACK VIA LINN SLACK AND SE SLOPE OF MOODLAW
BURN GLEN TO BRIDGE AT GRID REF. NT261018 ---> TRACK TO B709 ROAD AT
GRID REF. NT241008 ---> GARWALDWATERFOOT ---> SAMYE LING TEMPLE.
Route Two.
BENTPATH ---> TURN WEST AFTER CROSSING BENTPATH BRIDGE AND PROCEED
TO ROAD JUNCTION AT GRID REF. NY296916 ---> TURN NORTH AND FOLLOW
ROAD UP MEGDALE TO GLENDINNING ---> KIRK CLEUCH RIG ---> GLENDINNING
HEIGHTS ---> GREY HILL ---> PROCEED TO FOREST RIDE AT GRID REF. NT
279007 ---> TURN WNW AT GRID REF. NT281009 AND FOLLOW TRACK TO RAE-
BURNHEAD ---> Continue from Raeburnhead as in Route One.
Route Three.
GARWALDWATERFOOT ---> TRACK TO GARWALD ---> FORESTRY TRACKS VIA MON-
KENSHAW, LONG KNOWE, BUCHT KNOWES, ASHY BANK and SPOTS LAW TO EAST
FLANK OF DUN MOSS AT GRID REF. NT176037 ---> TRACK DOWN CAULDLAW
GRAIN TO KIDDAMHILL ---> THICKSIDE ---> TRACK VIA WETWOOD HILL,
WETWOOD RIG and SOUTH FLANK OF STELL KNOWE TO B709 AT GRID REF. NT
241008 ---> RTN. TO GARWALDWATERFOOT.
Route Four.
ENZIEHOLM BRIDGE ---> PROCEED ALONG UNCLASSIFIED ROAD VIA LYNEHOLM
and BAILIEHILL TO CONFLUENCE OF THE BLACK ESK / WHITE ESK --->
BLACK ESK BRIDGE ---> CASTLE O'ER ---> TAKE TRACK LEAVING ROAD AT
GRID REF. NY247928, THEN TURN LEFT ONTO TRACK AT GRID REF. NY246929
---> FOLLOW TRACK SW, THEN CURVING "CLOCKWISE" UNTIL YOU FACE APPROX.
NORTH ---> PROCEED TO CASTLE HILL ---> DESCEND TO ROAD (using network
of tracks) AT GRID REF. NY249952 ---> ESKDALEMUIR.
The greater parts of these routes lie on roads and forest tracks: they are clearly marked on the O.S. Landranger Map No. 79: "Hawick and Eskdale." I have selected the walks which, in my view, offer as much scenic diversity as possible in what would be regarded by some ramblers as a land-mass of unrelieved gloom and monotony. Great care must be taken: it is too easy to lose your way in this vast labyrinth.
Public transport to Bentpath, Eskdalemuir, Samye Ling Temple and Garwaldwaterfoot (B709) from Langholm is provided by Anderson's / MacEwan's Coaches Service 112. For details, enquire at Langholm Public Library or Town Hall.
Copyright 23rd August 1999 and 19th September 1999:
RICHARD M. STANBROOK,
"Howden,"
18 Drove Road,
Langholm, Dumfriesshire DG13 OJW.