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Dismantled Railway Line Lemmington Estate. Below HOWICK and Viaduct Lemmington Branch there are B1339 extensive views towards the A697 BOULMER ALNWICK ver Aln This railway line formed part of Cheviot Hills, which were Ri B6341 ALNMOUTH the Alnwick-Cornhill branch formed by ancient volcanoes, WHITTINGHAM Licence No. LA076775 2000. A1068 line, which was opened by the long since extinct and much Northumberland County Council. North Eastern Railway Company eroded by the elements over © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. EDLINGHAM WARKWORTH after the completion of the millions of years, to form the B6341 A1 COQUET ISLAND WALKS IN NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND rounded green hills seen today. AMBLE viaduct in 1885. The last ROTHBURY The array of brightly er passenger train ran in Riv Coq FELTON B6345 uet September, 1930 with coloured farm B6344 Edlingham the line eventually machinery beyond 3 GENERAL INFORMATION where farmers earn their living. A 4 ⁄4 mile walk exploring the countryside closing to freight Lemmington Please respect their life and work around this historic area transport in Hall is an Distance and leave no litter. Please follow March, 1953. agricultural 3 1 The walk is 4 ⁄4 miles (7 ⁄2 km) on the Country Code and take care on scrap yard. There is no waymarked public rights of way, country roads and lanes. public access farm tracks, country roads and on the railway Bank Wood lanes, involving two steep climbs. Dog Walkers line or viaduct. The paths may be wet and muddy Please keep dogs on leads to Planted around in places. Wear suitable footwear. prevent disturbance to stock and 1900, it has a rich Lemmington Most fences are crossed at gates. wildlife. Hall and diverse range of wildlife, including Great Start/Finish Facilities Spotted Woodpecker, Tawny The Hall site was originally Start on the road leading to the There are no facilities in Edlingham Owl, Red Squirrel and Roe Deer. occupied by a 14th Century Pele castle and church. There are a or on the walk. The nearest shops Tower which was incorporated During the spring the wood is 1 limited number of spaces available and toilets are at Alnwick (4 2⁄ miles) into the present Georgian carpeted with Snowdrops and 1 to park cars. Beware of soft verges and Rothbury (5 2⁄ miles). Blue Bells. Mansion by the renowned and be careful not to block Newcastle architect William entrances outside the church. Tourist Information Newton. The Hall was restored Edlingham Castle Alnwick: Tourist Information in 1913 after falling into Ordnance Survey Maps Centre 01665 510665. Originally built in the 13th disrepair, it later became a Explorer 332 Alnwick and Amble Rothbury: National Park Century as a Tower House, it convent. The column that stands (1:25000) and Landranger 81 Visitor Centre 01669 620887. was later fortified as a reaction in the parkland to the south of Alnwick and Morpeth (1:50000) the Hall is a memorial to a to the unsettled times of the Edlingham Castle Scottish succession and border distant relative of diarist John Be a Welcome Visitor Open during daylight hours. Free raids. The castle was eventually Evelyn. It was originally sited at Please take care not to disturb entry. The castle is under the abandoned during the English Felbridge Park, Surrey and was wildlife habitats. The countryside is stewardship of English Heritage Civil War. Part of the solar tower brought to Lemmington in a living, working environment 0191 261 1585. 1928, as ornamentation. probably spanned the original moat, resulting in the leaning Northumberland County Council Countryside Service Lemmington Branch and section seen today. This, along If you would like to know more about our work send an A4 SAE to: The Cheviots with the castle’s fine fireplace Northumberland Countryside Service, Northumberland County Council, are two of its striking features. County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 2EF. A late 18th Century hilltop Much of what is now known farm with a spectacular about the castle’s development A large print version of this crenellated frontage in the was discovered during leaflet is available Gothic style, created as part of archeological investigations the ‘romantic’ landscaping of between 1978 and 1982. Printed on environmentally friendly paper. 2001. Walk directions 1 From the car parking area follow the field ridge, follow the path signposted 0 1km 1mile pass through the gate 1 ‘Public Footpath Overthwarts 1 ⁄4 at the field boundary EDLINGHAM 3 Lemmington Hall 1 ⁄4’. Pass and follow the field through the gate, turn right and edge. Keep the fence follow the churchyard wall. Pass on your left, cross Lumby Law through the gate near to the 1 over the dismantled wall, keep the fence on your left Start/Finish railway line and over until you reach a stile in the far 2 Edlingham Lemmington Mill the stile. Keep the Burn corner of the field. field boundary on your right and head back 2 Cross the stile and the Rothbury towards the church and the 1 dismantled railway line and go 5 /2 miles 3 8 car parking area. through the left-hand gateway. 7 Lemmington Follow the fence ahead to the Hall Edlingham Village Swinhope Overthwarts next gate. Pass through the gate Letch and bear left keeping to the field B6341 Eadwulfingham (as the village was ridge and drop down to cross Corby’s originally known) was given to the footbridge. Letch Saint Cuthbert in 737AD by King Monument Coelwolf, on his resignation of the Dismantled Railway 3 Climb straight up the steep 4 throne of Northumbria to become hill (or alternatively, for a © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Northumberland County Council Licence No. LA076775 2000 Bank a monk at Lindisfarne. The rig and Alnwick Wood 1 gentler climb, bear left above 4 /2 miles furrowed fields, especially to the the trees and gorse until you south west of the village, attest to reach a grass track and follow 5 the feudal and agricultural origins this uphill to the right) to of the village, which was also Overthwarts Farm. Pass through notorious as the home, in the 17th Lemmington 6 the large gate in the stone wall, Broome Century, of the supposed witch, Wood Wood turn right and follow the farm Margaret Stothard. track around the farm buildings. Lemmington Branch Continue along the track until The Church of Saint John The you meet the road just below B6361 Baptist the railway bridge. This project is part funded by the European Community European The present church, some of Agricultural Guidance and 4 Turn left, cross the Guarantee Fund which pre-dates the Norman road and follow the route into Conquest, stands on the reputed the wood signposted ‘Public 5 Head up the hill to a gate 6 At the road bear left down houses at Lemmington Hall and second field and woodland. site of a wooden Anglo-Saxon Footpath Broome Wood 1’. by the edge of the woodland. the hill. At the road junction around the corner. church of the 8th Century. The Follow the path through the Turn left through the gate turn left following the road 8 Go through the gate where church features a Norman woodland until you reach a and pass between the patches signed for ‘Lemmington Mill 1 7 Leave the road on the path the route crosses the track and doorway of a style rare in 1 gate on your left. Pass through of gorse bushes to join the Lemmington Hall ⁄ 2’. At the next signposted ‘Public Footpath head downhill towards the Northumberland and a strongly 1 the gate and head straight track beyond the cottage. road junction, bear right Edlingham 1 ⁄2’ and continue telegraph pole, keep above the fortified tower featuring arrow-slit down the hill, through a Continue along the track to the following the road signed for along the field edge. At the end of gorse and trees before turning windows, suggesting it was built gateway to the right and onto a road. ‘Lemmington Mill Only’. the field pass through a gate and right, down to the footbridge. with both defence and detention track over the stream. Continue along the road past the continue along the edge of the Climb the slope, bearing left and in mind..