About Mark Johnson
171 km
35:03 h
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Yetholm has a well stocked community run shop. The Italian restaurant in Wooler was very popular - busy midweek with walkers and locals, best to book a table in advance.
Good community run shop at Morebattle with coffee machine and a wide range of supplies - very pleasant seating area in the garden at the back of shop. A good place to stop and refuel before heading up the big climb of the day.
Trains run regularly between Edinburgh Waverly and Tweedbank rail stations - the journey takes 1 hour and a single ticket cost £14.10. Melrose Abbey is a 3km walk along a well signposted path - buses also run regularly from the station to Melrose, check the Borders Buses app for times and tracking. Trousers
Mark Johnson planned a hike.
October 8, 2024
04:21
15.7km
3.6km/h
280m
280m
Day 4 elevation is c.450m (not c.1000m as per my watch). This section of the walk is in England, expect more walking on quiet roads than previous days - presumably due to right of access changes between England and Scotland. It takes c.1.5 hours to walk the pilgrims way across the sands to get to Holy
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