Arkleton Hill

Our New Year walk up Arkleton Hill yesterday really blew the cobwebs away.  Arkleton is close to the Border town of Langholm, famous for its annual  historic Common Riding.  Arkleton House, passed at the start of the walk is a wonderful gothic, grey Scottish pile and was the former home of MP Walter Scott Eliot who was murdered by his butler, Archibald Hall, infamous for having a holiday house in Newton Arlosh, Cumbria.  Although the hill tops out at 520m, it still provides stunning views across the rolling border hills and is well worthy of a summit bid (and geocache)!