Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, eight miles (13 km) southeast of Kelso. The Borderpublic house in the village is the official end of the Pennine Way. Scottish Borders is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. ... Kelso is a burgh in the Scottish Borders, located where the River Teviot flows into the River Tweed, a place famous for its salmon fishing and rugby club. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of south west England A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British culture. ... The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath in England. ...
I arrived at KirkYetholm at 15.00, and in a moment of madness I decided to walk the seven miles to Morebattle rather than stay in KirkYetholm overnight and do the seventeen miles tomorrow.
The views from the top of Wideopen Hill are very expansive - to the east is KirkYetholm and the Cheviots, and to the west can be seen the Waterloo Monument (near the campsite where I shall be spending tomorrow night) and the Eildon hills near Melrose at the end of St Cuthberts Way.
KirkYetholm is well known as being the northern end-point of the Pennine Way, the place many people dream of during two or three weeks of trudging northwards.
The name Yetholm means "Gate Town", and the villages have been described as lying on the front line during the various wars between England and Scotland.
The last true King of the Gypsies died in KirkYetholm in 1883, though in an early attempt to boost the local economy through tourism, a ceremonial Gypsy Coronation took place as late as 1898.
KirkYetholm has a much larger and more open village green, on one side of which is the very attractive Border Hotel.
Feeds |
Contact