Where two walks meet

In 2017 I walked from East to West, Newcastle to Carlisle, along the Hadrian’s Wall Path. Today my North to South route would cross that East to West route.
I began at the post box at Burthwaite. Some twitter followers asked about the Parish Council: St Cuthbert Without. Without what you wonder?
Well I don’t know, but Bede reported that Cuthbert’s followers had carried his body in his coffin around the North of England for 6 years before setting it down at Durham.
The morning’s walk was fine with no rain and I was not so encumbered. I was soon walking into Carlisle via Upperby, where they are building Story Homes. Maybe they are made of straw, wood or bricks depending on which little pig you choose.

‘I’ll huff and I’ll blow your house down’

In Carlisle city centre we stopped for ice cream before visiting the Cathedral. My South to North walk was crossing over my East to West one, as I visited the cathedral in 2017 when I was on the Hadrian’s Wall Path. We walked past the Carlisle City Hostel where we stayed and also Carlisle castle. At Britts Park I was briefly on the HWP again and crossed the river Eden to the point where the line of the Vallum crossed the A7. 

I was definitely heading North.

I walked into Hobby Craft to top up on scrapbook supplies (there are a series of scrapbooks that also illustrate the End to End) and then onto the final section of road around Kingstown retail park. This used to be an airfield.
Bob met me and we agreed to try a short section of disused railway path to get off the road for a bit. It wasn’t that long, and two other short bits of path one of which ended in a scramble up a bank, took me to Harper Bridge, over the M6, today’s end point.

River Eden at Carlisle 

From Psalm 46

There is a river and its streams make God’s city a glad place, the holy place where God is living.
God is right there in the centre of that place and shall not be moved but shall continually come to help that city all of the time.

God loves cities.
God wants them to thrive and be places of abundant life.
May the city constantly remember God and directed in God’s way be a fruitful place for all people.

God grant a quiet night and a peaceful end.

JAL 16.06.2019
Day 64 of the End to End, Burthwaite to Harper Bridge via Carlisle.