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Another one taken in part of Scotland called Dumfries and Galloway as my previous. The village where starts a small road for pedestrians is called Kippford and you can walk to village Rockcliffe on the beach.
Find attached workshop picture from zhe same place!

Facts"

The little village of Kippford is sited almost at the mouth of the River Urr, on the eastern shore of the estuary. It is now most active during the sailing season, when the Solway Yacht Club hold regattas. During most months of the year, yachts of various types lie at moorings out in the channel, only being beached in the worst winter months.

During its heyday, the village was once an important coastal packet port and had its own measure of industry. A mill and two quarries were sited nearby, there was a small shipyard, even a spa hotel across in nearby Rockcliffe. The village is now mostly for the retired and owners of second homes, but it still has an interesting character.

Rockcliffe is linked to Kippford only by its Jubilee Path, which runs through land held by the National Trust. The road was originally intended to run between both villages, but this was frustrated by the donation of the land to the Trust by the owner. The 'Jubilee' referred to is the 1901 Queen Victoria's Jubilee, when the path was first cleared and surfaced by local subscription. The intended road now runs no further than the Baron's Craig Hotel, but its line runs on for several hundred yards to where the path begins.

Rockcliffe has in fact had very little recorded history before its late 1800s development as a resort. At Castle Point there are the remains of a prehistoric dun of possibly the second century A.D., and on the Motte of Mark there were fragments of a settlement occupied from possibly 800 A.D. to the early mediaeval period. Two cottages at the 'Red Sands' were in existence before the main development, but most of Rockcliffe is barely a hundred years old.

During the late 1800s Captain Candlish constructed a jetty in Moat Bay, just north of the village, for use by boats when the tide was up. It is unfortunately now largely unused as there is difficulty reaching it from the landwards side. The structure was refurbished in the late 1990s and is now in excellent condition.

Rockcliffe beach is a sandy crescent with sandy mud exposed at low tide. Although there is vehicle access for boats, a line of boulders were tipped across the best access to the sand-flats and make launching almost impossible. This keeps the beach private, but hinders its development for tourism and has lead to insufficient scouring of the beach.

writen by Richard Edkins