The Cheviot Hills

My own enterprise at Local Adaptation.

I have a little flock of Cheviot sheep, and they are a hill breed, come from the Cheviot hills on the Scottish border.

And they ought to be well adapted to the kind of land that Tonya and I have.

But they're not necessarily because they've been raised in the Midwest for a long time.

How do you say it? What do you say up there?

Cheviot Hills.

Yeah.

Cheviot.

So you have to do the Cheviot, the actual Cheviot in the Pennine Way, which you don't do in The Spine.

We sort of unanimously decided that she was gonna run the first, I guess she ran the first, like, 12, 13 miles by herself, settle into it, and then I would join her for the, the second half of the Cheviots.

And we thought we could direct inject from this reservoir up onto the Cheviots, which you can do, Gary, but it involved us driving.

Trish has this amazing, like, just family wagon.

It's not a, it's not a van or anything.

Low.

Glyne riseth in Cheviot Hills and so into Glynedale onto Newton village where is a tower.

There is a little brook or Beaumont coming out of Scotland runneth into Glyne to Langton village nine miles off where is a ruin of a tower a mile off.

So to Copland village a mile where the water breaketh into arms making islets but soon after meeting and so are two miles of this side Ford Castle into Till.

Till riseth in the hills of Cheviot and so cometh into Glynedale onto a castle called Chillingham Castle a six miles from the Cheviot Hills.

So to Ford Castle and eight miles off to Ethel Castle on the bridge of stone down on the east side a mile to Hetton Castle on the west side of the Till a three miles and a half off.

So to Twistle Bridge of stone one bow but great and strong where is a townlet and a tower a two miles off.

So to Berwick a six miles standing on the north side of Tweed a little.

Conk, alias Cocket.

Lo, Glyne riseth in Cheviot Hills, and so into Glyndale on to Newton Village, where is a tower.

There is a little brook called Beaumont, coming out of Scotland, runneth into Glyne to Langton Village, nine miles off, where is a ruin of a tower a mile off.

so to copland village a mile where the water breaketh into arms making islets but soon after meeting and so a two miles o this side ford castle into till till riseth in the hills of cheviot and so cometh into glyndale on to a castle called chillingham castle a six miles from the cheviot hills so to ford castle and eight miles off to ethel castle on the bridge of stone down on the east side a mile to hetton castle on the west side of the till a three miles and a half off so to twisselbridge of stone one bow but great and strong where is a townlet and a tower a two miles off so to horncliff a little village on the east side not half a mile off and therein to tweed horncliff is half a mile above norham tweed riseth in tweeddale in scotland at a town as i here say called peeble and so cometh through the forest of ettarick in scotland and so through tynedale in scotland the people whereof rob soaring continually in glyndale and bambrisher and at a little brook called ryden burn the which parteth england and scotland by east and west and cometh into tweed the great stream of tweed toucheth on the english ground as a lime's between scotland and it so to carham a good mile off a little village where is a cell of two shannons of kirkham in yorkshire at this carham is a little tower of defence against the scots So to Workcastle, a mile off and more, a meetly strong fortress, to Cornhill, a little pile two miles off, against the which on the farther ripe in Scotland is Coldstream, a place of nuns.

So to Norhamcastle, where is also a meetly good town about a three miles off.

So to Berwick, a six miles standing on the north side of Tweed a little.

thereby at the bridge on the south side of the water is twemouth a suburb to the town and thence in northumberland as i hear say be no forests except cheviot hills where is much brushwood and some oak ground overgrown with ling and some with moss i have heard say that cheviot hill stretcheth twenty miles there is great plenty of red deer and roebucks the forest of luffs is in tynedale on the west side of north tyne even betwixt the tyne's arms betwixt newcastle and tynemouth little wood betwixt newcastle and morpeth little wood ground between morpeth and annick good plenty of wood in certain places and many parks twelve miles betwixt newcastle and morpeth twelve long miles between morpeth and annick twenty to berwick so from newcastle to berwick betwixt annick and berwick little plenty of wood from newcastle to hexham are fourteen miles and that way little wood except at a few places there they reckon not hexham in tynedale but as a liberty by itself it is the market of south tynedale the liberty of hexham stretcheth the ten miles south-west one way In Bamberishire, part of Northumberland, is little or no wood.

In Ridsdale, no plenty of wood.

It's basically the end of the spine race.

And it's a range of hills, quite isolated, called the Cheviot Hills.

And they're in Northumberland, a really beautiful part of northern England.

And Scotland's just on the other side.

Archibald Douglas was installed as regent for the absent David II, and his authority was everywhere recognized.

Plundering parties of Scottish moss troopers soon began to cross the Cheviots and resume the raids of the days of Robert Bruce.

Edward III had now to choose between David II and Baliel.

He was young, enterprising and ambitious, and much set on avenging the discomfiture he had suffered during the campaign of 1327.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's really interesting 'cause I think, um, th- so when you're looking at the dots or if anyone watches the dots on the open tracking where you can, uh, track the runners, um, quite often when I've been watching other people and you see people get to, uh, the final hut on the Cheviots, which is about seven miles from the finish, and you kinda feel like it's, um, a given that when people get to that point they're gonna finish it.

But I, I know from watching previous races that, um, you, you haven't finished until you've crossed the finish line and you've touched that wall, um, uh, that's at the, uh, at the finish.

Um, because anything can still happen.

Rufus rebuilt the strong fortress of Carlisle to defend his new border at its weakest corner.

For the most part, this border is excellently protected by the natural rampart of the wild Cheviot Hills, and is in every way as good a border as could be devised.

It runs in a fairly straight line from southwest to northeast across a narrow part of the island.

But although this borderline proved to be a permanent one, it must not be thought that it remained undisputed.

It tells how the Percy, from his castle in Northumberland, vowed that within three days he would hunt on the mountains of Cheviot in spite of the doughty Douglas and his men, and that he would kill and carry away the fattest deer in Cheviot.

"By my faith," said Douglas, when he heard of the boast, "but I will hinder his hunting." Percy left Bamburgh Castle with a mighty company, no less than fifteen hundred bold archers chosen out of three shires.

The foray began on a Monday morning in the high Cheviot hills, and many a child yet unborn was to rue the day.

The drivers went through the woods and raised the deer, and the bowmen shot them with their broad arrows.

Conk, alias Cocket.

Lo, Glyne riseth in Cheviot Hills, and so into Glyndale on to Newton Village, where is a tower.

There is a little brook called Beaumont, coming out of Scotland, runneth into Glyne to Langton Village, nine miles off, where is a ruin of a tower a mile off.

so to copland village a mile where the water breaketh into arms making islets but soon after meeting and so are two miles of this side ford castle into till till riseth in the hills of cheviot and so cometh into glyndale unto a castle called chillingham castle a six miles from the cheviot hills so to ford castle and eight miles off to ethel castle on the bridge of stone down on the east side a mile to hetton castle on the west side of the till a three miles and a half off so to twisselbridge of stone one bow but great and strong where is a townlet and a tower a two miles off so to horncliff a little village on the east side not half a mile off and therein to tweed horncliff is half a mile above norham tweed riseth in tweeddale in scotland at a town as i here say called peeble and so cometh through the forest of ettarick in scotland and so through tynedale in scotland the people whereof rob soaring continually in glyndale and bambrisher and at a little brook called ryden burn the which parteth england and scotland by east and west and cometh into tweed the great stream of tweed toucheth on the english ground as a lime's between scotland and it so to carham a good mile off a little village where is a cell of two shannons of kirkham in yorkshire at this carham is a little tower of defence against the scots So to Workcastle, a mile off and more, a meetly strong fortress, to Cornhill, a little pile two miles off, against the which on the farther ripe in Scotland is Coldstream, a place of nuns.

So to Norhamcastle, where is also a meetly good town about a three miles off.

So to Berwick, a six miles standing on the north side of Tweed a little.

thereby at the bridge on the south side of the water is twemouth a suburb to the town and thence in northumberland as i hear say be no forests except cheviot hills where is much brushwood and some oak ground overgrown with ling and some with moss i have heard say that cheviot hill stretcheth twenty miles there is great plenty of red deer and roebucks the forest of luffs is in tynedale on the west side of north tyne even betwixt the tyne's arms betwixt newcastle and tynemouth little wood betwixt newcastle and morpeth little wood ground between morpeth and annick good plenty of wood in certain places and many parks twelve miles betwixt newcastle and morpeth twelve long miles between morpeth and annick twenty to berwick so from newcastle to berwick betwixt annick and berwick little plenty of wood from newcastle to hexham are fourteen miles and that way little wood except at a few places there they reckon not hexham in tynedale but as a liberty by itself it is the market of south tynedale the liberty of hexham stretcheth the ten miles south-west one way In Bamberishire, part of Northumberland, is little or no wood.

In Ridsdale, no plenty of wood.