03 North East Berwick-upon-Tweed and the River Tweed, Northumberland Ramblers DISTANCE 9.7KM/6 MILES ASCENT 69M/226FT Routes TIME 2½ HOURS TYPE RIVER AND COUNTRY To download this route NAVIGATION FITNESS PERFECT NUMBER LEVEL LEVEL FOR OF STILES and hundreds of others, visit NOVICE LEISURELY HERITAGE 3 ramblers.org.uk/routes This walk presents some of Berwick-upon-Tweed’s most famous sights, including its celebrated BERWICK- UPON-TWEED walls and the three 3 bridges that span the River Tweed. The route also 5 Plan your walk 1 START & FINISH travels along the 2 WHERE A circular walk around Berwick-upon-Tweed and along Tweed Estuary, the River Tweed. famed for its START/END Berwick Town Hall, wildlife and Marygate (NT998529). wonderful 4 TERRAIN Pavement, woodland and riverside paths. scenery MAPS OS Explorer 346; ROUTE BY Landranger 75. KEITH FERGUS GETTING THERE Virgin Trains East Coast from London and Edinburgh to Berwick-upon- Tweed (03457 225333, virgintrainseastcoast.com). START From the town hall, Once past the second of two road turn L, then, as the road swings 1 3 Bus 253 between Edinburgh follow Marygate north-west cottages, the route enters R, take a gate on the L. Here, a path and Berwick-upon-Tweed to the Elizabethan Scotsgate. Turn dense woodland. Continue for proceeds along the fl oodplains of (Perrymans Buses, 01289 L, climb a road onto the town walls, approximately half a mile to a path Yarrow Slake. In a while, it veers R 308719, perrymansbuses.co.uk). then turn R. Walk clockwise along on the left signposted ‘Berwick and continues over a fi eld. When EATING & DRINKING The Barrels the walls to a fork beside the Brass Bypass Bridge’. This descends the path splits, keep L, then – just Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed Bastion. Bear R and continue past the through a gate back to the Tweed. before the Royal Border Bridge – go (01289 308013, facebook.com/ impressive Berwick Barracks. Now Cross a footbridge, then bear R to L through a gate. You then follow thebarrelsalehouse). a museum and art gallery, building cross a fi eld (where sheep may be a track under the bridge onto SLEEPING The Castle Hotel, started in 1717 on what was one of grazing) towards an old ruin. Just Riverside Road. Berwick-upon-Tweed (01289 the oldest purpose-built barracks in before this, turn L along a path 307900, thecastleberwick Britain. The path then heads south. running L of a hedge. The path Turn L, then, after a small car 5 upontweed.co.uk). Beyond a gate, walk past Fisher’s soon fades, so continue alongside park, go L again. Follow a path VISITOR INFORMATION Fort, then Coxon’s Tower, to reach the hedge. Once over a stile, a path onto West End and under the Royal Berwick-upon-Tweed TIC, The Bridge End, beside Berwick Bridge. crosses a second stile, then climbs to Tweed Bridge. At Berwick Bridge, go Library, Walkergate (01670 the Berwick Bypass Bridge at the A1. L and re-cross the River Tweed onto 622155, visitberwick.com). Cross Bridge End, follow Bridge Bridge End. Cross Bridge Street onto 2 GUIDEBOOK Lothian & Terrace to its end, go L, then L 4 Turn L, follow the pavement West Street, which climbs steeply Berwickshire Coast: 60 Walks again at a fork. Walk underneath the over the bridge, then, after back to the start. by Keith Fergus (£12.95, Mica, Royal Tweed Bridge from where the another 30m, turn L over a stile onto ISBN 978 0956036759). path descends to the River Tweed, soon a path for Berwick. Walk through LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP passing under the Royal Border Bridge. a car park, then swing L through Walked this route? Berwick Ramblers Follow the path as it sweeps west along a picnic area. Turn R onto another Rate and review it online at (01289 309581, the Tweed Estuary, where swans, roe path, which heads north-east above ramblers.org.uk/routes ramblers.org.uk/berwick). deer and otters may be spotted. the River Tweed. At a single-track KEITH FERGUS PHOTO: MEDIA LICENCE 037/16. WITH MEMORY-MAP. CREATED COPYRIGHT, MAPPING © CROWN ORDNANCE SURVEY 15% DISCOUNT* FOR RAMBLERS MEMBERS Perfect gifts for COTSWOLDOUTDOOR.COM Horizon Hunting Explorers *T&Cs apply Walk53_44_03_RR_North East_Berwick_Rev1.indd 44 15/11/2016 13:40.