Route C - Hoik, Kielder & Hexam
Today's route headed out east, then turned north east on the B6357
through Mill Town & Evertown after which there was a slightly dodgy
crossing of the A7 to get into Canonbie. We hugged the Scottish side of
the border alongside Liddel Water (there may have been an Asda Water as well – I
couldn’t say) through Newcastleton, which we’ve been
though many times, but this very long, very thin village now has an interminable 20 limit. After that it was the lovely
B6399, which we drove unimpeded to the outskirts of Hawick, then the B6088 to Bonchester Bridge & onto
Saughtree where we take a minor road to cross the border at Deadwater.
There was a planned cake stop at Simonburn, which turned out to be delightful. There were two old coves taking tea as we bustled in, they asked who we were, Linda showed them a picture of the cars "Gosh" said one "they look like 1950's formula one cars".
Next we found ourselves driving through Humshaugh & at Chollerford, turned onto the
A6079 amid a cluster of Roman sites & a village called Wall. A brief spell
on the A69 took us to a fuel stop in Hexham, then back on the A69 for a longer
spell in the other direction to pick up the A686 though Bearsbridge to Alstone & Raise.
We were now reversing part of route B, going north to Lambley & across to Longtown where we turned north. At this point I was driving alone, so I said "Home James" to the SatNav & headed straight back.
The others briefly took the A7 to the B709 through
Craigcleuch before tuning south again at Eskdalemuir to arrive in Lockerbie for
a re-fuel & an easy run home.
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