St Cuthbert’s Way Walk Day 5 would see us walking from Yetholm to Wooler – a distance of about 16 miles. Having stayed at The Plough Hotel overnight, we walked back to the point where we had left the St Cuthbert’s Way route the previous day. Initially we walked from Yetholm to Kirk Yethom. Kirk Yetholm is also the end (or start if you prefer) of the Pennine Way. The next section of the route was also the same as…
Having a free afternoon last Sunday we decided to take the opportunity to do a bit of hill-walking and chose a route up to Kinder Downfall in the Peak District National Park. The route itself has some history behind it for we would be following in the footsteps of the mass trespass walk of 1932 where ramblers made their way to Kinder Scout. So following church we headed off to Hayfield and had our lunch beside Bowden Bridge car park,…
Bank holiday Monday was our C2C Day 3. It was always going to be a tough day as there were three big hills to be climbed. As we left Highfield’s B&B in Alston, it was already warm and sunny. We followed the NCN route 68 back to Leadgate where we picked up route 7 again. Then climbed for a while before dropping down into Garrigill. As we left Garrigill, there was a short but very steep climb – which I…
