{"id":808,"date":"2009-03-23T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=808"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:38:11","slug":"king-edward-monument-burgh-by-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2009\/03\/king-edward-monument-burgh-by-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"King Edward monument – Burgh by Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday our update ended after our walk in Finglandrigg Wood<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0however, we managed to get a second walk done as we visited the King Edward 1 Monument<\/a> at Burgh by Sands.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/a>
King Edwards Monument sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Burgh, pronounced brough as in woof, is on the Solway plain between Scotland and England and is the site possibly for the remotest monument for a monarch anywhere.<\/p>\n

We followed the roadsigns from the village to a small car parking area and then continued on foot down a farm track.<\/p>\n

You can see the monument in the distance slightly to your left as you walk away from the carpark.<\/p>\n

Charlie once again was in charge and covered most ground as he sniffed first oneside of the road then the other not wishing to miss anything.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/a>
King Edward 1 monument sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The firm, but slightly dirty, farm track led to a stile and onto the Solway Marshes.<\/p>\n

A finger post sign indicates, as if you can’t work it out, that the monument is to your left and that we need to be kept on our leads as it is lambing time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grass here tasted quite salty and was quite short. \u00a0In the distance were a number of sheep and we kept our distance following the faint path across the undulating \u00a0marsh.<\/p>\n

Unlike our earlier walk this land was not really too boggy so we could scamper about quite easily without getting too dirty.<\/p>\n

As we approached the monument we noticed that it was surrounded by a small wall with very tall railings.<\/p>\n

A padlocked gate stopped us from entering onto the actual memorial site \u00a0so we walked all around to see what we could see.<\/p>\n

As we looked out across the Solway the monument was the tallest structure for miles around and in winter this place must be horrible as no shelter could be seen.<\/p>\n

\"Charlie<\/a>
Charlie and I look back at the King Edward I monument.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King Edward I, or Longshanks as he was known due to his height of 1.88m, made camp here as he made one of his many campaigns against the Scots.<\/p>\n

A plaque at the base of the sandstone monument reads<\/p>\n

King Edward I Monument ( built 1685)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Edward I fought a long bitter campaign to conquer Scotland<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Old and sick he made camp on these marshes whilst preparing to subdue his\u00a0enemy Robert The Bruce<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Edward died here on July 7 1307<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0
\nKing Edward was laid in the nearby St Michael’s Church, in the former county of Cumberland, before being taken to Westminster Abbey in London for burial.<\/p>\n

His tomb is marked by a simple stone slab which bears the epitaph ‘Here lies Edward, the Hammer of the Scots’.<\/p>\n

After we had enjoyed the sunshine and had a bit of a rest we started our walk back to the car.<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/a>
Time for Limbo...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This meant we had to negotiate the stile again and as is now customary we did a bit of limbo and sneaked under the fence whilst mum and dad struggled to climb over the top whist holding onto our leads.<\/p>\n

\"Charlie<\/a>
Charlie wants a drink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charlie spotted a drinking trough on our journey back up the hill and just stopped, as by now he was thirsty again.<\/p>\n

Dad reached through the fence to see if the inlet valve worked, it did, so now came the question of how to get our drink.<\/p>\n

Dad thought he would be clever and using a trick he learnt in the Scouts many years back made a paper cup<\/a> from a piece of paper. \u00a0It fell apart as soon as we started to lick. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Mum then had an idea and using a small plastic bag she had in her pocket \u00a0she proceeded to make a small bowl. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Fantastic, \u00a0fresh clean water and loads of it.<\/p>\n

\"Buster<\/a>
Buster in need of a bath ...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After two walks we had started to look a bit grubby and so when we returned home it was straight to the bath and a good wash down. \u00a0<\/p>\n

We were actually very muddy and mum had to was us both twice. \u00a0<\/p>\n

We had had a great day and some fantastic new sniffs.<\/p>\n

Until next time<\/p>\n

Buster and Charlie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday our update ended after our walk in Finglandrigg Wood\u00a0\u00a0however, we managed to get a second walk done as we visited the King Edward 1 Monument at Burgh by Sands. Burgh, pronounced brough as in woof, is on the Solway plain between Scotland and England and is the site possibly for the remotest monument for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,681],"tags":[1113,1105,1116,632,1126,1122,1121,1117,1106,1111,1123,1119,1109,1112,1118,631,1114,1124,188,1115,1127,1120],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-expeditions","category-featured","tag-brough","tag-burgh-by-sands","tag-car-parking","tag-carpark","tag-edward-i","tag-faint-path","tag-finger-post","tag-foot-down","tag-king-edward-1","tag-king-edwards","tag-marsh","tag-marshes","tag-monarch","tag-monument-sign","tag-oneside","tag-railings","tag-roadsigns","tag-scots","tag-sheep","tag-small-car","tag-solway-plain","tag-stile","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}