this book gave me many ideas of what to look for on the walk.

Kirk Yetholm is well known as being the northern end-point of the Pennine Way, the place many people dream of during two or three weeks of trudging northwards. Nestling gently amongst the northern foothills of the Cheviots, it is also almost the mid-point of St Cuthberts Way from Holy Island to Melrose. This is a very well signposted walk, and this means that it is quite hard to get lost as long as you keep looking for the way markers.

From the Border Hotel in Kirk Yetholm head east along the road past the green. Take the first road to the right to head north through the village alongside another edge of the green. Pass theScottish Youth Hostel Association building, and a little bridge before heading across fields to meet the road bridge over Bowmont Water linking Kirk Yetholm with Town Yetholm.

Turn right to cross the bridge and once on the other side of Bowmont Water turn left and descend to the fields. Skirt the river across fields before a track is met that brings you out onto a minor road. Turn right down this road, and almost immediately you reach the 6401 road.

Turn left down the B6401 and head along it for about 750 metres to a road junction. Turn left down the road through Primsidehill and head south along this road for just over a kilometre. Take a track then leads sharply uphill to the right for a short distance before