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Mon 10 May 2021 00.30 EDT Gilsland Spa hotel stands empty at present, dominating a promontory above a wooded gorge, with far views to the north Pennines. Victorian tourists came here for the mineral springs – both sulphurous and chalybeate – and its romantic scenery. A path, wide enough for crinoline or horse and cart, leads steeply down through beech and sycamore. The bank above is sprinkled with the yellow stars of lesser celandine and a tumble of daffodils. Below, the hillside drops away, covered in bluebells and the fresh green of woodrush. Descending towards the River Irthing, we tak...

A HISTORICAL, local landmark has been moved after allegedly being bulldozed. Over the first few days of April, damage was seen to be done to the Popping Stone, Gilsland. The Popping Stone is a group of three rounded, sandstone boulders in the Irthing Gorge and lies within the grounds of the Gilsland Spa Hotel on the Cumbrian or west bank of the River Irthing. Caterpillar tracks have been reported along the footpath to the Popping Stone, while the stone itself has, allegedly, been rushed towards the river and turned over. The surrounding ground has also, reportedly, been churned up and...

Hadrian’s Wall (Vallum Aulium) was a defensive fortification in Roman Britannia that ran 73 miles (116km) from Mais at the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea to the banks of the River Tyne at Segedunum at Wallsend in the North Sea. The purpose of the walls construction varies, some theories by archaeologists suggest that it was an expression of Rome’s power to solidify Hadrian’s policy of defence. On Hadrian’s accession to the throne in AD 117, there was unrest in parts of the Empire, including Judea, Libya, Egypt, and Mauretania which may have persuaded Hadrian to strengthen frontier bord...