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How to get there AD1901 - Moorlands managed for both sport and conservation Living North Pennines PRESENT DAY
AD1837 - 1901 Victorians Lead mining heyday supporting our landscape together Allendale
AD1714 - 1837 Georgians P Lord Crewe dies and trustees took over management of Blanchland and surrounding land AD1603 - 1714 Stuarts Newbiggin and Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham bought Blanchland and surrounding area the Carriers’ Way AD1348 - 1603 Tudors Blanchland Abbey dissolved Blanchland through the ages
P Walk starts from here AD1348 - 1485 Late Medieval Black Death
AD1216 - 1348 The Middle Ages This is one of a series of walks leaflets to help you discover Scots army burn Blanchland Abbey, later rebuilt the North Pennines AONB. Why not try one of the others? by Edward III To find out more, contact: North Pennines AONB Partnership, Weardale Business Centre, AD1066 - 1216 Anglo Normans The Domesday Book The Old Co-op Building, 1 Martin Street, Stanhope ‘White Canons’ settle in Blanchland Co. Durham DL13 2UY +44 (0)1388 528801 [email protected] www.northpennines.org.uk
AD410 - 1066 Anglosaxons We can provide the information Vikings invade England contained in this leaflet in large print, different formats and other languages AD43 - 410 Romano British on request. Please call 01388 528801. Roman conquest. Hadrian’s Wall built The North Pennines AONB Partnership holds a Gold GTBS Award for its corporate office and tourism activities.
Iron Age P 750BC - AD43 A
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Farmers inhabit valley near Burntshield Haugh / e l d
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Organisation, with the support of Lord Crewe’s Charity. Particular thanks are due to Jim Lynch. W i b A 2000 - 750BC Bronze Age © Settlers build huts in the nearby valley and lay the cremated remains of their dead to rest in a ring cairn
8000 - 2000BC Mesolithic and Neolithic Periods Hunter-gatherers and early farmers with their livestock regularly travel between Cumbria Supported by Natural England through West Durham Rural Pathfinder. and Birkside Fell 09/08/5000 Newbiggin and the Carriers’ Way Follow the footsteps of our © A
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9 Hexham racecourse can be seen on the far hillside to your left. Ignore the first marker (indicating a path to the right ) and take the Lapwing 8 Once again the path is elusive, but keep straight on with next , which will bring you across the fell to a the hill sloping up on your right and the Carriers ’ Way ladder stile and then diagonally on a rough and will soon become clear and easy to follow. At this stage boggy path to Pennypie House. As an of the walk, take time to admire the wonderful pastoral alternative (avoiding the boggy section) , go panorama to your left as you look across into along behind the wall across the moor until it Hexhamshire. You are looking into the valley of the meets the track which leads down to Pennypie. Devil’s Water where Cadwallon of Gwynedd was killed by King Oswald's army after the Battle of Heavenfield in 10 Go through the gate and take the track back y a to Blanchland with Shildon Burn to your right. 634, thus setting the scene for the Northumbrian Golden W
’ s Evidence of the area’s mining past is seen all Age. Pass a shooting hut. r e i r r around, the most obvious being the old a 7 Continue past Riddlehamhope and around C engine house at Shildon. to the right through a gate and on to a stony track. Shortly after take a stile on the right.
G There isn’t a definitive path. Set a course ro use Bu across the moor towards the edge of the tts plantation you can see ahead and you will come to an unexpected natural feature, a Pennypie Pennypie Fell winding glacial meltwater channel . Follow 9 House the path down and look at the beautifully 10 crafted sheepfold. Go across the board walk Birkside Fell S hild on B and around the edge of the marsh to climb © Elizabeth Pickett/NPAP urn back up onto the fell. Bronze Age cairn Shildon Blackburn Head 8 Way Carriers’
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1 Start at the car park in Blanchland. Turn right, then turn right again at 6 After several gateways and a stile you will the corner opposite archway and eventually come to Riddlehamhope (the “R” of walk along the road until you reach the milestones). This Victorian building was 5 the playing field and follow the track probably used as a shooting lodge in the 1920s Across the valley to the left is along the top side of the playing field to 1930s. The remains of a late 16th or early the village of Hunstanworth . to the tiny hamlet of Baybridge. 17th century bastle house can still be seen next In the middle distance you can also see the derelict farm to the house. © Elizabeth Pickett/NPAP of Gibraltar, possibly named 3 Newbiggin Hall on the left is a because of its position on a shooting lodge for hunters rocky crag. Keep on the track using the famous grouse 2 At Baybridge carry straight on and cross as it runs parallel to Beldon moors. Where the metalled the road. Go through a gateway and Burn in the deep river valley drive finishes , take the gate along a metalled drive . Please take care . to the south. Look out for the ahead and follow the track ©
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e another gate. / N P A P 4 At this point those choosing a shorter walk turn right and climb the hill to follow a track through the wood and across the fell to a shooting hut .
At the shooting hut rejoin the main walk and continue on to the gate, noting the Carriers’ Way marker stone to the right.
If you are not taking the short cut keep straight on.