Walk 2 : Wetland, wildlife and War memorial WALKS AROUND THE MID-TYNE 6 3 Length: 1.25km/ ⁄4 mile WALKS AROUND THE MID-TYNE Allow: 30 mins We hope you enjoy these walks from Humshaugh. This short walk goes through a small wetland, This is one of 10 leaflets available, with 18 walks in all, then a short uphill stretch takes you back to the to help you enjoy exploring Hadrian’s Wall Country in Humshaugh village via the War memorial. 1 this lovely part of Northumberland. Walk 1: Keepershield - 5.5km/3 ⁄2 miles 3 Walk 2: War memorial - 1.25 km/ ⁄4 miles Mid-Tyne Northumberland Kirkwhelpington As walk 1 National Park Walk 3: Haughton Mains - 1.5 km/1 mile A696 Bellingham Two short but interesting routes exploring Follow walk 1 to . B6320 Great meadows and woodland near the village and a 1 Turn left, over the bridge, at the fingerpost: Bavington good stroll further afield through gently ‘Permissive footpath to the War Memorial’. Follow A68 undulating countryside. a surfaced path through this wetland area, taking Wark Birtley 7 8 B6342 in another, smaller, bridge. R. N 9 ort 2 Go through a gate into a field. Turn right and Stonehaugh h ne follow the field edge up the field to a stone Ty A68 step stile next to a gate onto the road. Turn left Simonburn Great to the War Memorial and then on to the village: Humshaugh Whittington B6318 6 take care to keep to the side of road and watch 2 for traffic. Chollerford Newbrough Wall 1 2 4 5 10 Fourstones Acomb Walk 3 : Haughton Mains 3 A69 Haydon Bridge R. Length: 1.5 km/1 mile HEXHAM Tyne Allow: 30 mins S.Tyne This short, flat walk takes you around the east 1 Wall (2 walks) 6 Humshaugh (3 walks) of Humshaugh along a quite lane and back to 2 Wall & Chollerford (2 walks) 7 Wark (2 walks) the village through pleasant pastures. 3 Warden Hill 8 Wark - Warksfield Head 4 Newbrough (2 walks) 9 Stonehaugh (2 walks) 5 Newbrough - Carr Edge 10 Fourstones (2 walks) As walk 1 Published by the Mid Tyne Community Trust. To find out more Walk away from the village on a minor road about what we do, contact us at: Women’s Institute House, signed Haughton 1. Newbrough, Hexham, NE47 5AR. Tel: 01434 674904 www.midtynetrust.ik.com email: [email protected] 1 1 Follow this road for about ⁄2 mile, passing Registered charity no. 1095760 Haughton Mains Farm. Take the footpath on This project has been funded by: 1 your left, signed ‘Humshaugh ⁄2m’. Then follow directions for Walk 1 from . Walk 1 : Keepershield Wester Hall Haughton 1 Castle Length: 5.5 km/3 ⁄2 miles Allow: 1 hour 30 mins 4 An easy walk across an old landscape defined Keepershield by mature trees, ancient hedgerows and Haughton Pasture drystone walls. 3 Bus stop outside Crown Inn (Tyne Valley Coaches 01434 602217) The Crown Inn (01434 681231) serves 4 Taking care of Walk 1 5 meals and welcomes walkers. the traffic, turn right Near the Crown Inn at Humshaugh. and in a few metres turn Haughton right again onto a minor road Mains signed ‘Haughton 1’. Follow this road 2 From the Crown Inn, walk up the road towards for just over a mile (1.7 km), passing 1 Haughton Castle on the way. the Post Office for about 150m and turn right 5 Walk 3 1 Walk 2 into Burn Lane (signed Keepershield 1 ⁄4m). 1 After about ⁄2 mile (800m), where the road 1 1 Follow the lane between houses and keep bears left, look out for a footpath sign 2 1 1 straight on when it becomes a path. Cross a marked Humshaugh ⁄2 mile . Go through Start Humshaugh footbridge and turn left to walk along the edge the kissing gate and follow the direction of (Crown Inn) of a field, following the Humshaugh Burn on the the sign acros the field to another kissing your left. gate. Follow the fenceline to go through another small gate into a small woodland. © Crown copyright 1997. All rights reserved. 2 At the corner of the field cross a stone stile Licence number 100042280 Cross a bridge with kissing gate and walk up and straight across this next field to another the field to another kissing gate. Go through stone stile. Now bear half right, aiming just to gate and follow the path between gardens, the left of the plantation on the skyline. As you through an arch, across a courtyard and out Haughton Castle cross this field there are good views of to the road, back to where you started from. Barrasford Quarry on your right. This privately owned castle is The corner of the field will come into view. Walking with wildlife one of the great Head towards this and through the small gate. A group of volunteers from the village of houses of Bear slightly left, up to the cottage (Haughton Humshaugh applied to the Evans Trust to create Northumbria. It Pasture) at the top of the field. the permissive path link around Humshaugh. With was originally built in the 14th century but was 3 Cross a wooden stile and pass the front of the a grant from the Hanson Environment Fund, the sacked and burnt down in the 16th and cottage. Keep straight ahead with a drystone group bought and organised the installation of a remained a ruin until the 1800s when a west wall on your right until you come to a gateway pathway, bridges and gate. The project was wing was added. In 1816, the settlement of and stone stile. Cross the stile and follow a completed in early 2003 and provides an Haughton was cleared from the estate and the muddy track to the main Bellingham road. enjoyable short circuit around the village. park enclosed..