Annadale way Traditional Cache
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The cache is by the bridge there is a gate through to the footpath if you spot iy. There is room to park at the gate for one if you are quick it's a bit overgrown around the cache
The Annandale Way in Dumfries & Galloway is the new 55-mile long-distance walking route following the river Annan from source to sea.
This is a walk which really gets under the skin of the landscape, offering you glimpses into the history and hidden secrets of this quiet and tranquil part of Scotland, parts of which have remained undisturbed for centuries. Enjoy, as poet and walker Linda Cracknell wrote, “flashes of kingfisher, crumbling mansions, the blink of a hare. Oak trees twisted through centuries of growth and willows sprung quickly from the earth”.
The signposted walk starts above the source of the river Annan in the high fells, with a circumnavigation of the Devils Beef Tub, where the Border Reivers used to hide their stolen cattle. It then drops down following the river Annan along the valley bottom into the picturesque market town of Moffat.
From Moffat you will head south following the 'Crooked Road' up out of Beattock where it meets the Southern Upland Way. Continue over the high ground of Cragielandshill and down onto the Lord of Annandale's Estate where the route snakes through ancient oak forests and over farmland down the valley to Millhousebridge. Here, the route splits into an eastern and a western arm that go through Lockerbie and Lochmaben respectively.
The Lockerbie arm takes in the Lockerbie Wildlife Trust's Eskrigg Nature reserve with its loch and abundance of wildlife, whilst the western Lochmaben arm takes in Castle Loch with it's picturesque ruined castle and new sculpture trail designed with the help of Peter Bowsher, world champion chainsaw carver. The route then goes up past Joe Grahams monument where walkers will enjoy fantastic views of the whole of Annandale.
Walkers leaving Jo Graham’s monument
The two arms meet up again just north of Hoddam Bridge where they follow the slow moving river Annan, wide at this point and teaming with wildlife as it meanders down through Annan and on to its end at Newbie Barns on the Solway Coast. On reaching the coast, you can enjoy the wide panoramic views of the estuary as you look back into Scotland and across the water to the magnificent Cumbrian Mountains. Rest awhile and listen to the cry of the curlew or the peep of the oyster catcher.
Alternatively, you can begin your walk on the coast and trace the route northwards to Moffatt.
Either way, you will begin and end your walk at a cairn. They were designed and built by local sculptor, Max Nowell. Constructed from the stones local to their locations, each cairn also uses one stone from the other’s locality that has been carried from sea to source or source to sea and points back where it has come from, representing the never ending cycle of the waters that form the river Annan.
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