Dotted along the edge of Hadrian’s Wall, the pretty archetypal English villages of Kirkandrews-on-Eden and Grinsdale are the final stops for walkers and cyclists before the urban sprawl of Carlisle.
There’s no pub, or a shop. There are two village halls. One, now closed, was once a popular dance hall and used by the local young farmers’ club. The other, a single-storey brick building, holds regular coffee mornings and afternoon teas. There used to be a railway with a station, but the unprofitable line shut in the 1960s.
