3. The Cambrian Way OEX bush pro Bivvi wet sleeping bag no mat in strong rain and wind The Blorenge.

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Day Three on the The Cambrian Way mountain trail 479 km (298 miles) with a total ascent of 22,460 m (73,700 ft). I think it could be Britain's hardest long distance trail. Its hard to say but looking at the map i think i started todays episode around the Mynydd Garnclochdy area i want give exact camping locations away. I was so wet from the rain all night i set about getting ready to walk around 4am just to keep warm. I was no risk at cold from the time of Year and in good health. So walked back up towards Mynydd Garnclochdy i think. The rain came back on top the hill. The rain was very bad so much so i could only see about couple of meters ahead what with the mist as well as the dark even with two powerful lights. By this time my cannon camera was destroyed by the weather i should know by now and my phone was useless take note people think phone navigation fine lucky i know this i used my garmin fenix3 gps watch with the track loaded onto so i knew i was heading in the general dir

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I got a train from  Birmingham New Street to Gretna Green changing at Carlisle for only £16.50 booked in advance via Chilternrailways join https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/freemoneycashback free to get cash back on the ticket with them for even bigger saving. I had a brief look around Gretna Green i then headed for the number 79 stagecoach bus to High Gaitle Caravan Park to put my tent up and lighten my load for a walk around the Gretna Green area. Got then got the number 79 bus back into Gretna Green then headed toward the Lochmaben Stone. Then started my walk proper from there. was a easy walk with out the big backpack today. On the was passed few border bridges one with out welcome signs and i walked in the Debatable Lands it was not possible to walk Scots' Dike as it was impassible a local said so manged to get bit drone footage of it from a distance. Shame there no right of way going thorugh there. Then back to High Gaitle Caravan Park
Gretna Green is situated on the Scottish side of the borders of Scotland and England. The Quintinshill rail disaster, the worst rail crash in British history (226 recorded deaths), occurred near Gretna Green in 1915. Gretna Green is most famous for weddings.
High Gaitle Caravan Park is a very clean friendly with lots of space. Warm showers at no extra coast. One electric socket for charging your powerpacks. Camping for small tent is £8 a night.
Lochmaben Stone  it is all that is left of a stone circle dating back to around 3000BC maybe. The Lochmaben Stone was a well known, well recognised and easily located 'marker' on the Scottish Marches it performed a number of functions prior to the Union of the Crowns, arrangements for truces, exchange of prisoners. Raiding parties met here before launching expeditions into England and Scottish armies assembled here before major incursions or defence operations took place. It may well have been a tribal assembly point. An army was ordered to assemble here as late as 6 February 1557. In 1398 an exchange of prisoners took place when English and Scots representatives, the Dukes of Rothesay and Lancaster met at the Lochmaben Stone. The prisoners were released without ransoms and any that had already been paid were to be returned. In the 1800s the tenant of Old Graitney farm decided to clear his land of the three remaining stones which ruined his field's appearance and got in the way of his machinery. He set his farm hands to work digging deep pits for the burial of the stones. One had been completely buried and another partially sunken when the proprietor, Lord Mansfield, arrived at the scene and stopped further operations.
Scots' Dike is a three and a half mile / 5.25 km long linear earthwork, constructed by the English and the Scots in the year 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between Scotland and England. The method adopted to dig the Scots' Dike was to dig two parallel ditches, and throw the material excavated therefrom into the intervening space, thus forming an earthen mound of varying height.

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