& Walk

Route: Start OS Grid Ref: NY 795 872 Grade: Moderate Local Services: Greenhaugh & Bellingham Distance: 2.5 miles / 4 km Terrain: Footpaths, roads and tracks, Time: 1 hour - 1 hour 30 mins footbridge, gates and stiles Map: OS OL42 Explorer 1:25000 Description: A circular walk with lovely Water & Forest views across the Valley Greenhaugh Start & Parking: Greenhaugh, car park Please keep dogs under close control near the Holly Bush Inn (NE48 1PW) A Start from outside the Holly Bush Inn, F Continue straight on until you (with your back to the door) turn left and reach the fence. At the fence turn left walk along the road towards Greenhaugh and walk down the open grazing land First School. Keep following the road. (keeping the fence on your right) to the bottom of the field. B At the junction go straight on along the road, signed ‘Sidwood’. G Go through the gate and walk downhill, through the wooded dene, D C Cross the road bridge over the Tarset crossing the stream and going up to Burn and keep following the road uphill. C join the track to Boughthill Farm. Look out for the pretty waterfall on your right as you cross over the burn. H Go through the farmyard, and turn left to walk along the farm track. D At the junction turn left along the The hay meadows here are full of wild road signed ‘Thorneyburn’, and walk E START flowers from May to July . Cross the B Holly Bush past St Aidan’s Church on your left. Inn footbridge over the Tarset Burn, and Keep following the road. keep walking along the track back to E Just before Thorneyburn Lodge the road. A climb over the stile in the wall on your I At the road, turn left back into the left. Follow the garden wall (keeping it on village. The car park is on your right. F your right), turning right and continuing Trees felled I here 50 metres until you reach a stone step stile in the wall. Head across the rough G fell ground, in the direction indicated by the arrow on the stone stile. After about ¼ mile you will reach the stone H remains of a bastle next to a waymark To Bellingham post. Sheep and cattle may be grazing Red-tailed Bumblebee in these fields. Please use an OS map on this walk © Crown Copyright and database rights (2017) Ordnance Survey Licence Number 100022521 NATIONAL PARK

THE SILL: National Landscape Discovery Centre Kirknewton

Greenhaugh

HADRIAN’S WALL St Aidan’s Church, Thorneyburn Hay Meadow Chimney Sweeper Moth

THE SILL Local facilities A little bit of history Wildlife to look out for The Holly Bush Inn at Greenhaugh is St Aidan's Church in Thorneyburn was The hay meadow at Greenhaugh by a great little country pub, offering a built in 1818 by the Greenwich Boughthill Farm has a rich mix of grasses Directions - To the walk start point warm welcome to visitors and residents Hospital Commissioners to provide a and flowers, including ox-eye daisy, orchids, From Bellingham: Turn right by the alike. It is dog friendly in the bar and living for ex Royal Navy Chaplains buttercup, yellow rattle, greater burnet, Church, signposted ‘’ garden and if you play an instrument after the Napoleonic Wars. ragged robin, wood cranesbill and (just by the bridge over the River North then bring it along as there is often an Scattered throughout the landscape melancholy thistle. It provides a home for Tyne). After 2 miles you will pass Boe informal ‘jamming session’ happening! around Greenhaugh are Bastles an assortment of insects such as bumble - Rigg at Charlton, keep straight on. A defibrillator is located outside Tarset (fortified farmhouses) that were built in bees, hoverflies, beetles, damselflies, At Lanehead junction turn right signed Village Hall in Greenhaugh. the late 16th and early 17th centuries butterflies and moths, not to mention the slugs and snails, shrews and voles hidden ‘Greenhaugh’. The car park is in the Bellingham a small town, is 4 1/2 miles to withstand the frequent raids from village on the right near to the Holly the notorious Border Reivers. from prying eyes! Best time to visit the hay away and has a wider range of services meadow is from May to July. Bush Inn. including petrol, a small supermarket Just 2 miles up road from Greenhaugh The North Tyne Valley with its large forests and local Heritage Centre. is Black Middens Bastle. Take a stroll Public Transport Information is home to red squirrel. Look out for them through the field up to this impressive scampering up the trees, they are often T: 0871 2002233 www.traveline.org.uk Dark Sky ruin. Northumberland National Park is part easier to see when there are no leaves on of the Northumberland International the trees in winter. Dark Sky Park, and is one of the best Black Middens Bastle Birds to look out for include heron, dipper destinations in to see the stars and grey wagtail along the Tarset Burn. at night. Buzzard and kestrel can often be seen Holly Bush Inn, Greenhaugh high up in the clouds.

Elsdon Tower (pele) - a private house, no public access Red Squirrel

Photos ©: David Taylor, Simon Fraser, North East Wildlife, NNPA.