First bit of our #hadrianswall walk today, me and kid: Bowness on #Solway to Burgh by Sands.

Sort of esturine, heathy landscape, and incredibly hot, still, flat, and silent. Could easily have been near Ventnor or The Lizzard, not the Scottish border.

Lots of sheep with lambs in the shade of hawthorn, and cows wallowing in estuary pools.

Amused by the tenacity with which Burgh holds onto its Edward I connection, being: on passing a nearby bog on his way to somewhere else, he died of an infectious disease. He was probably unaware of even the village's existence!