Kirkbride

Kirkbride is a village in Cumbria England's far North-West Coast on an estuary known as the Solway Firth, which has been designated and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty by the Natural England Countryside Agency on behalf of the British Government.

The whole of the Cumbrian coastline is thought to have been inhabited by humans since the last Ice Age, around what was once a large freshwater lake. With the rise in temperatures and sea-levels, that lake became what is now the Irish Sea, and the developing seafaring populations established numerous settlements along the shore. Numerous artefacts have been discovered to substantiate the presence of these early towns and villages that date as far back as 2,000 BC. Eventually Cumbria came under Roman, and then Anglo-Saxon, occupation, whereby a legacy of fortifications, watchtowers and walls developed, remnants of which can still be seen in Kirkbride today, including Agricola's Ditch, or "Vallum", which is a vast earthwork ditch that once contained the local portion of Hadrian's Wall. In other parts of the country, stonework of the wall is still largely present, however, the area around the firth was much less accessible for the importation of stone, and so presents and exception in that this part of the wall had to be built in timber, creating a defensive weakness.

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