A1(M) Part of an extensive network of railway

A167 paths, Walk the Line covers a long End Walk the Line at Lanchester, section ideal for walkers and cyclists. Walk the Line the site of Roman fort, Longovicium – on the Roman road from York… On this route, the Bishop-Auckland to or if you still have energy, carry Brandon line links with the Lanchester on along the line. Valley route at Broompark. 10 Langley Park was the childhood home of The line used to carry iron ore to 10 Sir Bobby Robson. Steelworks and coal from Langley Park, but they now provide a A long straight section takes fantastic, picturesque route for lovers Fort foundations FINISH you to another coalfield of the great outdoors. can be viewed just community, Langley Park. outside the village. A691 8 Beaurepaire was visited by 9 Kings Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III from 1296 to 1335. THE ROUTE 8 A691 1. Start at 7. A place to Malton offers the perfect 9 1. theChantry Cap launchpad reflect place to pause and picnic. 2. Embark to the park Beaurepaire Priory was built 2. Pass by Hunwick 8. Into the 7 countryside 7 in 1258 by the Prior of Durham. 3.3. Sunnybrow/When is a castle not a castle? It became a retreat for Durham 4. WillingtonSuffragette Way cemetery9. Perfect An old pit wheel stands in front monks, but was largely destroyed by place to picnic 4. of the Bearpark Community the Scots in 1640 and 164. 5. Football crazy!

Centre, a memorial to the From Broompark bound 10. Roman around A689 6. Bridge over untroubled water village’s mining history. head to Bearpark. the village 6 5.7. OldSkipping joins overthe the river like a stone new!

6 A167 8. For whom the bell tolls Broompark is where the old 6. Grin and railway briefly joins the new, as Bearpark you travel alongside the East George Burdon McKean’s memorial Coast Main Line for a short while.

stone in Willington recongises his 5 A1(M) Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917. 5 Travel through Brandon and Meadowfield to HOW TO GET TO THE START A690 Broompark picnic area. Visit livemap.nexus.org.uk Pass both Sunnybrow 4 and enter the postcode DL14 7SF. and Willington. 3 Gem Archer, former SUITABILITY Oasis guitarist, was born in Hunwick. 4 Picturesque Brancepeth boasts a castle, once a fortress of the Neville 17.5 MILES Earls of Westmorland. Brancepeth Castle Golf Club is regarded as one of Full Full Partial Partial route route route route Hunwick dates from Saxon times 3 the finest in the North East. A688 when it belonged to the Cathedral 6.5 MILES church of Durham. 2 Suitable for wheeled pedestrians The Castle is one of the best preserved Bishops’ MOSTLY FLAT, 2 palaces in Europe. SOME HILLS, Begin Walk the Line at the Newton Cap picnic area. Take in the views of 1 UNEVEN PATHS Auckland Castle. 1 START BUS STOP www.gosmartergoactive.co.uk