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.
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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Worth seeing in and around Burgh by Sands
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Thurstonfield Lough
Thurstonfield Lough is an open water lough near Carlisle, Cumbria, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
3 km · lake in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Michael's Church, Burgh by Sands
St Michael's Church is in the village of Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.
100 m · Grade I listed church in Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton
St. Peter's Church is in the village of Kirkbampton, Cumbria, England.
3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Kirkbampton, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Burgh by Sands
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 88 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 116 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 116 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Burgh by Sands92 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Burgh by Sands115 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Burgh by Sands118 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Burgh by Sands
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burgh by Sands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
- Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.
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