Description

What visions of smugglers are conjured up in the heads of any Northumbrian by the mention of the “Salters Road”! This road (or track, it is little more) was used from very early times to carry goods from England to Scotland and vice-versa, but it was made notorious by its use, just before the union of the crowns, for smuggling salt and whisky. These two commodities were comparatively cheap in Scotland