Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’s best walks from the experts Britain’s best walks from the experts Northern England Northern England 06/11/2014 17:01 03 Drumburgh, Cumbria 04 South Tynedale, Northumberland l Distance 15km/9½ miles l Time 5hrs l Type Estuary l Distance 17½km/11 miles l Time 5½hrs l Type Valley and moor NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL walk magazine winter 2014 winter magazine walk walk magazine winter 2014 winter magazine walk Plan your walk Plan your walk l Hawick Lockerbie NORTHUMBERLAND l Carlisle l P l P Dumfries CUMBRIA l Newcastle TRO upon Tyne TRO L SOUTH L AR DRUMBURGH TYNEDALE AR B B A A N N O O Keswick Kendal l HY: FI HY: HY: FI HY: l P P WHERE: Out-and-back walk WHERE: Circular walk from from Drumburgh to Featherstone Rowfoot PHOTOGRA Bowness-on-Solway. along South Tynedale via PHOTOGRA START/END: Drumburgh, Lambley and Burnstones. Solway Coast Area of Outstanding 1. START Although this walk Situated in the North Pennines 1. START Turn L out of the car parking on green at START/END: Featherstone Natural Beauty is a low-lying, open follows the Hadrian’s Wall Path, Area of Outstanding Natural park (NY682607) along the road viewpoint just east of the Park Station car park (on landscape that stretches along the there is little obvious evidence of Beauty, the 23-mile South Tyne down to the river, passing the village (NY269598). the South Tyne Trail), Cumbrian shore of the Solway the Wall along the Solway. Instead Trail follows the River South Tyne entrance to Featherstone Castle TERRAIN: Tracks, field paths Rowfoot (NY682607). Firth – the third largest estuary in you can enjoy the far-reaching from its source via Alston to (of which you’ll have good views and minor roads. Route TERRAIN: Riverside path, the UK. The area comprises salt views and bird-life of this tranquil Haltwhistle. Between these two before long from the river bank). follows the well-waymarked well-waymarked long- marsh, sand dunes, mud flats, area. Drumburgh is situated on a towns, the route follows the The oldest part of the castle dates Hadrian’s Wall Path and is distance paths, and level raised mires and agricultural land, low hill overlooking the marshes disused railway line (closed in back to the 14th century. Turn L easy walking. Look out for disused railway line, with and is renowned for its bird-life. (see the information panel at start/ 1976), offering a good all-year- when you reach the river and tide times and warnings at a short stretch of quiet Huge numbers of overwintering parking area). From here round walking trail. During the follow the path along the east Dykesfield and Bowness. country lane. wildfowl include barnacle and (NY269598), walk along the 18th and 19th centuries, the North bank of the river, passing the MAPS: OS Explorer 314; MAPS: OS Explorer OL43; pink-footed geese, whooper road into the village, passing Pennines were extensively worked visible remains of a former Landranger 85. Landranger 86. swans, wigeon and teal, and Drumburgh Bastle on your L – a for lead, coal and limestone. prisoner of war camp. Between GETTING THERE: Stagecoach GETTING THERE: Bus waders like dunlin, oystercatcher, fortified manor house (also known Steam trains transported these 1945 and 1948, thousands of bus service 93, from Carlisle service 681 runs from redshank and curlew. This as Drumburgh Castle, pictured materials from the Alston Moor German officers were held here. to Bowness-on-Solway, goes Haltwhistle to Slaggyford attractive walk follows the last above) originally built in the 13th mining field north to Haltwhistle, Cross the road and continue along via Drumburgh (Mon–Sat), (✆ 01434 600599, www. few miles of Hadrian’s Wall Path to century using stone from Hadrian’s and from there they were sent the river bank for 500m then bear taxi-bus service on Sunday adapt-ne.org.uk); Northern its western end at Bowness-on- Wall. Just beyond, turn L along a east or west along the Newcastle- away L (there’s no obvious path (✆ 07592 763503 to book a Rail trains and Arriva 685 Solway. It’s easy walking, on the no-through road, following the to-Carlisle railway. Lambley here) to the far L corner of the seat); mainline trains stop at bus go from Newcastle level, with fine wide views across Hadrian’s Wall Path sign. Viaduct, a most impressive feat of field, where you’ll find a house Carlisle (✆ 0871 200 2233, to Carlisle via Haltwhistle the estuary to the Scottish hills in engineering, was restored in among the trees. Pass this on your www.traveline.info). (✆ 0871 200 2233, the north and the distant Lakeland 2. The track leads to a junction the mid-1990s. This walk combines R and head back across the next EATING & DRINKING: www.traveline.info). fells to the south. Take note of the where the Path turns R, but it’s stretches of the Pennine Way and field towards the river. There’s no Highland Laddie Inn, Glasson EATING & DRINKING: tides: the Solway has a very fast worth continuing in the same the South Tyne Trail to provide obvious path, again, but in the far (✆ 016973 51839, www. Wallace Arms, Rowfoot tidal surge and can inundate large direction a short way (to just past a highly scenic walk in quiet corner you’ll find a stile and gate, highlandladdieinnglasson. (✆ 01434 321872, www. areas of salt marsh and roads very Moss Cottage) to visit Drumburgh countryside, starting with a where the path becomes easier to co.uk); Hope & Anchor Inn, rowfoottraders.ndo.co.uk/ quickly – but you can usually do Moss National Nature Reserve – most attractive section along follow and leads to a footbridge ▲ Port Carlisle (✆ 016973 51460, ▲ wallace.htm); Kirkstyle Inn, ▼ important for its lowland raised the river bank. over the river. ▼ this walk even at high tide. 53-54 WALK45 RR NORTHERN.indd 1 53-54 WALK45 RRNORTHERN.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymap Ordnance Surveymap Continued... Continued... Knarsdale, nr Burnstones www.hopeandanchorinn. (✆ 01434 381559, www. 1 START com); Kings Arms, Bowness- 5 kirkstyleinn.co.uk). More FINISH ✆ ping ©Crowncopyright2014OrdnanceSurveyMedia048/14 on-Solway ( 016973 51426, ping ©Crowncopyright2014OrdnanceSurveyMedia048/14 FINISH choice in Haltwhistle. www.kingsarmsbowness.co. SLEEPING: Good selection of uk); Laal Bite Tuckshop, 4 B&Bs and guesthouses in and Drumburgh (✆ 01228 576551). around Haltwhistle (visit SLEEPING: Hope & Anchor Inn www.visithadrianswall.co.uk/ and Kings Arms (see above); accommodation); Common Wallsend Guest House, House Farm offers good Bowness-on-Solway self-catering cottages in (✆ 016973 51055, nearby Melkridge www.wallsend.net). (✆ 01434 321680, www. 2 VISITOR INFORMATION: 3 commonhousefarm.co.uk). Discovery Centre/TIC, Liddell VISITOR INFORMATION: Street, Silloth-on-Solway Haltwhistle TIC, Mechanics (✆ 016973 31944, www. START Institute, Westgate solwaycoastaonb.org.uk). 1 (✆ 01434 322002, www. GUIDEBOOKS: Solway Coast visitnorthumberland.com). Rambles (£3.50 + £1.50 p&p, GUIDEBOOK: Walking in published by the Solway 2 Northumberland by Alan Hall Coast AONB – available Map not to scale. (£12.95, Cicerone, Representation of 3 from the Discovery Centre. OS Landranger ISBN 978 1852844288). See above); Hadrian’s Wall MAP 85 1:50,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: Path by Anthony Burton Hexham Ramblers (£12.99, Aurum, ISBN 978 (✆ 01434 608661, www. 1845138080); Hadrian’s Wall northumbriaramblers.org.uk). Path by Mark Richards (£12.95, Cicerone, ISBN To download this route and hundreds of others, 978 1852843922). 2. Cross the footbridge with a visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: good view of the impressive Map not to scale. Representation of Carlisle Ramblers (✆ 01228 Lambley Viaduct. Go up the steps OS Landranger 529650, www.ralakedistrict. foreshore (accessible through gaps Viaduct, the haaf-netting (a the other side to a four-way MAP 86 1:50,000 talktalk.net). in the trees). traditional form of fishing) and junction and follow the sign for 4 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk wildlife. Retrace your steps to Lambley, keeping R at the fork. 4. As its name suggests, Port the start or catch a bus back. (For Cross the village road and follow mire. There are information Carlisle (originally known as Fishers a slightly shorter return walk, the footpath, which goes under boards and a waymarked path Cross) was developed as a port in follow the foreshore beyond Port a road bridge and across fields to To download this route and hundreds of others, leading to the viewing platform. 1819, with a canal linking it to Carlisle then the road – where it the A689. Cross and follow the visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes Return to the junction and turn L. Carlisle built a few years later. bears inland from the coast – back footpath signed to Burnstones. The track leads to Walker House The canal closed in the mid-19th to Drumburgh.) The Pennine Way soon joins from 4. Turn L and follow the Trail back Farm, from where you continue century (the remains of the Route devised by Fiona Barltrop the R. The path leads over Lambley paved parts of a former Roman to the start. There is no direct along paths through fields to the entrance lock and the breakwater Common, providing expansive road. The path becomes rather access past Station House onto road, turning R into Glasson. can still be seen) and was replaced views in the company of moorland vague at an overgrown, boggy Lambley Viaduct. You have to by a railway, which was also later birds like curlew, lapwing and area, so best to keep above it until follow a path down to the R, 3.