Town or village· Postcode CA5
Burgh by Sands
Cumbria, North West · population 1,244 · Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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Burgh by Sands
Burgh by Sands is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, situated near the Solway Firth. The parish includes the village of Burgh by Sands along with Longburgh, Dykesfield, Boustead Hill, Moorhouse and Thurstonfield. It is notable as the site of the first recorded North African (Mauri) military unit in Roman Britain, garrisoning the frontier fort of Aballava on Hadrian's Wall in the 3rd century AD. It is also where Edward I of England died in 1307.
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Days out around Burgh by Sands
View allBolton Fell National Nature Reserve
Boltonfellend · 12 miles
Former peat workings now a National Nature Reserve being restored to it's natural state.
Hare Hill
Banks · 16 miles
The tallest surviving fragment of Hadrian's wall and most Westerly. The core is original but the northern face is from the 19th century.
Caer Mot
Whitrigg · 16 miles
Name is from "The District of the Lakes", John Otley, 1827
Dunwalloght Castle
Cumrew · 16 miles
Date uncertain, could be post medieval. conjectured to be the remains of Dunwalloght castle, but there is not the least evidence in support of this assumption-Except OS maps it seems
Lockerbie Air Disaster Memorial
Lockerbie · 19 miles
Memorial to the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing
Watch Hill
Longburgh · 0.6 miles
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