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"Parked in the Buckham's Bridge car park at NT 82438 10716. Took the public road up to its end, continuing on the military road to its highest point, then ATV track to the summit of Thirl Moor (a non-firing day on the military range). Descent to the River Coquet, then up to join the Pennine Way past the Roman camps on Dere Street. Short diversion from the PW to reach the summit of Brownhart Law. Rejoined the PW for 6km hike over Lamb Hill and up to the summit of Beefstand Hill. Descended by its south ridge, using a gate in the deer fence, and down to join RoW to Carlcroft. Then back up the road to Buckham's Bridge. Solo. Light rain at first, then dry with cloud-base at 750m, breaking to some sunshine in the evening." — marktrengove2 • Jul 25, 2021
"A cool cloudy day, with some patches of blue sky. We started the walk near Blindburn in the Coquet valley, on a good track along the "Buckham's Walls" Burn and then up onto the Border ridge about 1km west of Lamb Hill. These hills are quiet and unfrequented and although this path forms the Border ridge path between England and Scotland, and is also part of the Pennine Way, there are few other walkers there. We ate our lunch in the Mountain Refuge Hut on the ridge, then went up Lamb Hill 511m. The visitor book in the mountain refuge hut confirmed that one person had stayed there overnight whilst walking the Pennine way and was the only person there for the last 2 weeks. We then walked along the border path to Ewemoorsider Hill, then into Scotland and headed down the slope to a col and then up onto Callaw cairn. Here the sun was trying to break through the cloud and we had some views. Then it was back onto the the Border ridge, where my companion wanted to walk onto Beefstand Hill, 1km to the NE. Here we saw the wild goats,which I had seen a few days earlier. From here we retraced our route back along the border ridge to Lamb Hill and then dropped down the south side, over rough grou..." — davidlong • Mar 2, 2012
"We set off from Blindburn Bridge at 11:30 am and went ENE along Buckham Watts Burn. We joined a path which took us to the Penine Way and had lunch in the mountain hut. We then climbed to Lamb Hill (511m). We descended to Ewemoorside Hill and went NE into Scotland and ascended Callaw Cairn (507m). We re-traced our steps to the Penine Way and continued NW to Beefstand Hill (562m). We went past a heard of wild goats - they didn't bother us and we didn't bother them. We went back along the Penine Way a little then went south to find the track to Yearning Law (477m) which we ascended and followed the path back to the car. The total walk distance was 8.4 miles, moving time was 3hrs 35 mins." — PlanMan • Mar 2, 2012
"A dull cloudy day, we started from the Upper Coquet valley, near Barrowburn, to walk up onto the border ridge between England and Scotland; The route up passes close to some smaller hills, whose summits can easily be climbed with a short diversion from the path - these are Hindside Knowe and Swineside Law. On the border ridge we would walk onto 2 hills, Mozie Law and Beefstand Hill. The track up is an ancient byway, used in the past for driving packhorses and cattle etc over the border, it is called "The Street". The border ridge at this point is also part of the route of the "Pennine Way" - a long distance path from Derbyshire to Scotland. On the summit ridge, in the cloud/mist we noticed a herd of wild cheviot goats. Parts of the path on the border ridge have now been flagged with stone blocks, which helps walking through the bog and mud. In good weather there are good views into both England and Scotland, but not today. In this walk of over 5 hours, we saw no other walkers. Unfortunately, my camera was dodgy, so I used the phone for some shots which are not v good." — davidlong • Feb 26, 2012