Great Hill

The glen above Kingledores is a very attractive place. Getting into it is easy with the newish road, but there is a bit of a climb over the spur of Nicklebeard Hill and all height gained gets lost immediately.

A large part of the plantation had recently been harvested, the clear fell was just over the skyline.

View from near Kingledores towards Worm Hill.

Old concrete magazine, for the Talla pipeline. Photo taken on the 3rd January 2022.

'The Wee Crook Cafe/Bistro opening Spring 2022' promises a sign on the A701 by the historic Crook Inn in Tweeddale. I presume this will be it, and it is good to see some positive development here.

Promising news, a notice suggesting that travellers will soon be able to break their journey at the Crook Inn - watch this space NT1126 : The soon-to-be Wee Crook.

Work continues to resurrect the historic Inn.

Work continues to resurrect the historic Inn. The notice on the fence is advertising Tweedsmuir Rhubarb Fest, 5 June, 2022 Link and Link .

Little change from a year ago NT1126 : The Crook Inn, apart from the removal of the name from the gable.

Names and words of local relevance currently decorate this restoration project.

A monument can be seen on Crook Hill on the Scottish Borders.

Heading along the A701 with a sign hoping to save the Crook Inn.

The Crook Inn is an inn in the Scottish Borders, near the village of Tweedsmuir on the A701 road between Broughton and Moffat. It is one of many claimants to be the oldest inn in Scotland. Robert Burns wrote "Willie Wastle's Wife" there. In the early 20th century a halt was built on the Talla Railway to serve it. The inn attracted much passing trade from the labourers who were building the Talla Reservoir, which the railway was built to serve. From - Link The hotel was refurbished in 1936 in the then-current Art Deco style, and retains many of the features installed at that time. It has also, over the years, become a place of pilgrimage for members of the Porteous family, visiting the site of nearby Hawkshaw, their former ancestral home on the hills above Tweeddale and the Fruid Reservoir. A reunion of Porteous family members was traditionally held at the inn every five years, attracting visitors from all over the world. In September 2010 it is planned that the celebrations will be held nearby, as the inn is temporarily unavailable. The proposals to convert the historic inn into apartments met with much local opposition and the plans were rejected by the councillors of Tweeddale West in March 2008. Following refusal the present owner lodged an appeal with the Department for Planning and Environmental Appeals (DPEA), a department of the Scottish Government. On 2 February 2009, following an appeal hearing on 18 November 2008, a decision notice was issued by the DPEA which finally dismissed the appeal. This meant that planning permission was not granted for the change of use of the historic Crook Inn to residential accommodation, giving scope for the inn to reopen once again. In January 2013, after a lengthy campaign by the Tweedsmuir community to secure ownership of the Crook Inn in order to reinvigorate it, the Tweedsmuir Community Company raised the asking price of £160,000 and bought the property, which is currently being refurbished thanks to the taxpayer via government subsidies (September 2014).

Heading along the A701 through the Scottish Borders.

Wind turbines seen on the nearby hillsides.

The Law is in the lower right corner.