Starting at Hartley Quarry on the outskirts of Kirkby Stephen the history trail follows the trackbed of the former bStainmore/b Railway crossing the two viaducts of Podgill and Merrygill. ... He was born at Thursby in bNorth/b Cumbria and is best known for his work on the Tay Bridge in Scotland. When the Podgill viaduct was widened, around 1890, a new, almost identical, viaduct was built alongside the existing, to which the new structure was tied. You can still see the join if ...
Here are a couple of maps showing the route the way takes through England and in to Scotland, as you can tell I plan to be walking from south to bnorth/b. Below the maps is a description of the walk which I didn't write myself but took from the website of the link at the bottom ... From Langdon Beck the Pennine Way turns westwards to cross the vast emptiness of bStainmore/b common, coming down for the first time on the western side of the Pennines at Dufton, in the Eden valley. ...
874 - Ivarr the Boneless dies, his sons continues attacks on bnorth/b-eastern England. 879 - Rurik establishes Kiev as power center of the Kievan Rus' domains. 885 - A huge fleet of Viking ships attacks Paris, but fails in conquering the city. ... 954 - Eirik Blood-axe killed at the Battle of bStainmore/b in York, Vikings defeated by King Edmund. 974 - Emperor Otto II of Germany attacks Denmark, but fails because of Norwegian help. 976 - Maccus Haraldsson, first known king of ...
