Slaterfield Fell & Kirkshield at road end

Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 5 Feb 2016

"Outside the south wall of the churchyard [Simonburn] a farm road leads up westward to the fell top. After passing three lonely farms it comes to the quaint house named Kirkshield with its crocketed pinnacles, built as a shooting lodge by a seventeenth century rector. Just past the house the road comes to an end, being crossed by an ancient drove-road. This comes down from the north, its wide grass-track leading southwards towards the Roman Wall and beyond. One wonders how often it has seen stolen lowland cattle being driven northwards in the old days of the moss-troopers." The Great Parish of Simonburn from Hadrian's Wall to Carter Bar: An Historical Guide by Cecil Dickson Ward Davis (1972).

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